CHT transport strike called off
Transport Workers Oikya Parishad called off its day-long strike in the hill districts yesterday afternoon as police and district administrations assured it of holding a meeting to discuss its six-point demand.
Nazrul Islam, assistant superintendent of police (ASP), told The Daily Star that all deputy commissioners, ASPs and forest officers from the hill districts would sit with the workers' body before October 1.
The parishad President Abdul Mannan confirmed this.
The organisation's demand includes an end to illegal toll collection and harassment of truckers and construction of a terminal for freight vehicles in northern Chittagong.
Despite sporadic protests in the past against the harassment and illegal toll collection by police, the government paid no attention to resolve the issue, said Mannan.
Traffic was disrupted on the roads in northern Chittagong and the three hill districts Bandarban, Khagrachhari and Rangamati in the morning due to the sudden strike.
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