Chandigarh-Kharar highway: Protest by anganwadi workers results in long traffic jam, irks commuters
Gurdeep Kaur, one of the representatives of the protesting anganwadi workers said that they had been demanding regular pay for anganwadi workers on Haryana’s pattern and also wanted a hike in their remunerations.
The workers held several protests across the state, including Mumbai’s Azad Maidan ground. (Representational/File Photo) Anganwadi workers on Tuesday blocked traffic on Chandigarh-Kharar highway, leaving thousands of commuters stranded and in a lurch for several hours. Hundreds of motorists, including some ambulances, were stranded in the ensuing traffic jam till the filing of this report on Tuesday evening.
As per reports, traffic was blocked by protesters without prior notice to local administration, leaving the commuters in a lurch. The traffic on the flyover and near Desumajra and Nijjer light points was blocked and long queues of vehicles piled up in the roads as a result.
The protesters forced traffic to be diverted from Morinda towards Chunni and Landran causing a long traffic jam on Landran-Sirhind road. At the Landran red light, such was the chaos on the road due to the protests and ensuing diversions that vehicles, including several ambulances, got stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic that extended for almost 4 kilometres.
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