Transport strike begins in Meherpur
Indefinite transport strike began in Meherpur yesterday demanding ban of illegal service by Nosiman, a locally made carrier.
Different transport owners and workers associations in the district called the strike following a meeting held on Saturday night.
Leaders of Bus-Minibus Owners Association, Transport Workers Association, Rented Micro Owners Association and Truck Owners Association attended the meeting.
Earlier, plying of modes of all transports came to a halt on Friday soon after a clash between bus workers and Nosiman owners at Gangni bus stand in Gangni upazila in Meherpur.
At least 20 people from both sides were injured in separate clashes at different places in the district following the clash at Gangni.
Since the incident, no heavy transports like bus, trucks, lorry and microbus plied to and from the district. Passengers or goods are being dropped at a spot on the boundary line of Meherpur district, around 30 kilometers away from the district headquarters.
Passengers in the district are going to their destination by rikshaw, van or newly launched battery run carrier.
Police said the chaos ensued on Friday after the Nosiman owners parked their vehicles occupying a bus counter. At one stage, some Nosiman owners beat up a staff at the bus counter and injured a bus worker.
Transport owners and workers in Chuadanga also called for an indefinite transport strike on all routes in the district from today to press their demand for stoppage of all kinds of illegal vehicles.
The decision to enforce the strike was taken at a meeting of the joint body at its office yesterday morning.
A Nasir Joarder, general secretary of the joint body of transport owners and workers said that transport owners are facing financial losses due to plying of illegal vehicles like Nosimon and Karimon on nine routes.
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