Auto drivers seek safe work environment
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, April 21 2018:
All Andro Kendra Driver
Welfare Association
(AAKDWA) today staged a
sit-in cum hands off steering
wheel protest till noon at
Yairipok Laimanai
Thongkhong condemning the
brutal assault on an auto driver.
Appealing the concerned
individuals and people not to
assault the drivers, Md Farid
Shah, general secretary of the
AAKDWA said auto drivers
are serving the people day
and night.
It is unfortunate
that some people resort to
such act and create fearful en-
vironment for the drivers to
work and perform their duty,
he said.
Mentioning that a driver
named Md Najimuddin from
Yairipok Ningthounai was
brutally assaulted at Yairipok
Top Chingtha at around 8pm,
he appealed concerned au-
thorities to look into the matter
and arrest the assailants.
Md Najimuddin is now
undergoing treatment in a pub-
lic hospital and is in serious
condition, he said.
Md Farid Shah further ap-
pealed the people and the
Government to provide a safe
environment where auto driv-
ers may perform their duty
without fear.