Farmer Protest: Farmers protested by parking tractors on the Doon-Delhi Highway, and buses going to Delhi were affected due to the agitation.

Posted on 27th Feb 2024 by rohit kumar

Farmer Protest: Due to jams at various places on the Doon-Delhi route due to farmers' agitation, buses going to Delhi from Doon and Haridwar including Kotdwar, etc. were affected on Monday.

 

Buses got stuck in long traffic jams at many places, due to which passengers had to face a lot of trouble. Given this, the operation of buses towards Delhi was reduced till noon. However, operations became smooth again in the evening.

 

 

Effect of movement seen in Uttarakhand

The effect of the fierce agitation by farmers against the central government was also seen in Uttarakhand on Monday. On the Doon-Delhi highway, farmers in Biharigarh of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, etc. stopped the traffic by placing tractors on the road.

 

Due to this, the Transport Corporation buses sent from Doon to Delhi, Saharanpur, Meerut, etc. remained stuck in the jam for hours. However, no bus returned, but the problems of the passengers increased as the buses got stuck in the jam.

 

The General Manager of the Transport Corporation said this

The same was the situation for buses going towards Delhi from Haridwar, Roorkee, Rishikesh and Kotdwar depots. The buses reached Delhi late by hours due to jams at various places on the way, due to which the schedule of buses in Delhi got completely disturbed.

 

Transport Corporation General Manager Deepak Jain said that the drivers and conductors were ordered not to operate the buses forcefully during the movement and to take the buses as far as they could reach safely. At the same time, due to the farmers' movement, the operation of buses going towards Punjab has also been significantly affected. Services to Ludhiana including Jalandhar and Amritsar continue to be affected.

 

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