Mangalore: City Limps Back to Normalcy after Day-long Bundh
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (MM/RD)
Mangalore, Jul 3: City has come back to square one after successful ‘bundh’ called by Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Thursday July 3.
City buses including a few auto rickshaws started plying while the traffic controllers at KSRTC bus stand announced bus services to all the destinations at about 6 pm on Thursday. Even the malls and wine shops were opened for business as the public transport resumed its services. Other shops that pulled down shutters on Wednesday night did not open since it was not worthwhile for them to keep open for just few hours of business.
For youth it was a leisure day as they spent their time playing cricket and volley ball. Nehru Maidan was full of youngsters playing cricket. Private vehicles were plying as usual in and around the city throughout the day. Meanwhile, goods vehicles also have begun plying on National Highway.
Sufferers:
Daily wage earners such as bus drivers and conductors, construction workers lost their wages owing to the strike. Almost all of them were jobless for the entire day without income.
Trucks supplying highly perishable items, such as vegetables, fish, milk etc did not reach their destinations on time, causing delay in distribution. Some of milk vendors had exhausted of their stocks on Thursday afternoon, as the demand rose in anticipation of bundh. Some of the vegetable vendors took this opportunity to sell their vegetable stock on the roadside.
Bundh was total in every sense. Even rains which were lashing the district in the last few days, extended support to bundh on Thursday and weather remained pleasant from Thursday morning till evening. However, the district administration did not take any initiative to attend to urgent repairs of roads which are in a pathetic condition with the advent of monsoon..
Although some minor incidents were reported across the district in the morning, the bundh was rather peaceful, police sources informed.
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