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AGU 23, BUTWAL. Industries in the Butwal area have been adversely affected by a week-long strike of truck entrepreneurs.
Containers are the sole means of goods
transport here. Industries in the Butwal corridor, Bhairahawa-Lumbini
and Butwal-Bhairahawa corridors are almost closed due to an indefinite
strike of truck entrepreneurs. Industries here are learnt to have halted
production following the agitation of truck owners.
We are unable to operate our business in
an indefinite closure of the operation of trucks, Chairperson of Cement
Producers’ Association Rupandehi Rhishikesh Agrawal said.
We are incurring a loss of millions of
rupees, he added. Agitating truck entrepreneurs have allegedly barred
independent truck owners from operating their service. Industry
proprietors are prevented from transporting their products in their
vehicles with red number plates.
There are 11 cement industries, two
steel industries, paper factories, a noodle (Mayos) factory, Jagadamba
Foods and over two dozen big industries in the Bhairahawa- Lumbini
corridor.
Goods imported from India and third
countries are blocked at the Bhairahawa Customs Office. Around 70
industries at the Butwal industrial corridor have been affected from it.
We are neither able to supply produced
goods to the market nor store them, said Chairperson of Butwal
Industrial Corridor Industries’ Association Ganesh Adhikari.
Now situation has come that around 3,000
workers will lose employment soon if the agitation continues.
Industrialist Ajaj Alam also shared the same problems. We are unable to
send produced goods to the market and to import raw materials due to the
agitation, he said.
Business community here have urged truck
entrepreneurs to withdraw the agitation at the earliest bearing in mind
its negative impact on business sector.When approached, Chairman of the
Western Transport Entrepreneurs’ Committee, Butwal, Ganesh Prasad Panta
said they have to agitate against the non-implementation of fare rate
fixed by the state.
He accused the police administration of
intervening in their agitation launched for their rights, and added
truck entrepreneurs have not obstructed the movement of any private
vehicles.
Rupandehi Industry Association has
requested to withdraw the agitation and Association Chairman Tej Kumar
Pathak said their goods worth tens of millions are in condition of being
wasted.
Hilly districts in the western region
including Gulmi, Palpa, Arghakhanchi and Syangja are hit hard due to
shortage of food grains. RSS
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