KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, June 10: The 48-hour Jharkhand bandh call given by Jharkhand State Students Union (JSSU) in protest against the state’s employment policy evoked partial impact in Kolhan on the first day on Saturday.
The JSSU activists are protesting the 60-40 ratio in the recently-declared employment policy of the JMM-led Hemant Soren government, claiming it to cast a pale of gloom on the employment prospect of the local students.
The agitated JSSU supporters came to the streets demanding the state government to call off the employment policy.
The bandh protagonists have threatened intense agitation in the event if the government does not pay heed to their demands.
While life in the twin districts of Singhbhum remained more or less normal, the impact of the bandh was moderately high in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district.
Though a majority of shops and business establishments remained operational in Kolhan, the public transport system was paralysed, causing immense difficulties to the commuters.
At Kankad Mode in Seraikela, the JSSU supporters had blocked the Seraikela-Kandra road by burning old tyres on the road, causing disruption in the vehicle communication. As a result of the blockade, long queues of private vehicles were formed on either side of the blockade point.
At Kandra Chowk also the JSSU activists had set up a blockade, causing disruption in vehicular communication.
The local police, however, succeeded to convince the bandh supporters to remove the blockades at both the Kankad Mode and Kandra Chowk after two hours of the impasse.
Kolhan DIG, Ajay Linda said the JSSU-sponsored bandh call evoked a lukewarm response across the Kolhan.
“We have deployed police force at strategic points in view of the students’ agitation. Except vehicular communication problems at certain points in Seraikela-Kharsawan district, life was normal elsewhere in the Kolhan, ” said the DIG while talking to lagatar24.com.
