Deploy Highway Protection Force : AITUC
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 09 2023:
Citing frequent imposition of economic blockades along NH-2 and NH-37, extortion and atrocities inflicted upon truck drivers and handymen, the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Manipur State Committee, has called for deployment of Highway Protection Force along the two highways at the earliest.
A statement issued by Kh Shamungou Singh, secretary, AITUC, Manipur asserted that for a long time, the AITUC and various drivers' unions have appealed to both the Central and State Government to take up preventive measures to safeguard the truck drivers and handymen plying along these highways.
As these national highways are the life-lines of the State, it is a well-known fact that people are dependent on the essential commodities brought in along these routes and any blockade along these highways have devastating effects on the public, said AITUC.
It also added that currently more than 500 trucks have been stranded due to blockades along the two national highways.
Thus, AITUC has appealed for speedy deployment of Highway Protection Force along the two national highways for the welfare of truck drivers, handymen as well as the public of Manipur.