By Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network—Bantwal (RD/CN)
 
Bantwal, Jul 6: The nationwide call for the ‘bandh’ opposing the recent price hike of petroleum products got a good response across the taluk with shops remaining closed throughout the day on Monday July 5.

Government offices remained open with a few staff.  Both private and KSRTC stalled their bus services and this disrupted general life.  The remote villages also witnessed good response. 

The city centre of B C Road was deserted except a few auto rickshaws.  Schools and colleges were closed as the strike affected transport services. 
 
Voluntary services:
 
A few youth who had to spend their day at home owing to the strike volunteered to clean up the neighbourhood. 

The youth of Punjalkatte, near here, undertook a cleanliness drive around the bus stand and in the locality. 

The local residents of Navoor cleared the muck from open gutters and undertook patch-up work on the pot-holed rural road under Navoor gram panchayat.  SDPI activists cleared the wild vegetation that had grown on the old bridge at Panemangalore.