Private bus owners’ association calls for indefinite stir across Odisha from October 10

Bhubaneswar: Odisha private bus owners’ association today called for an indefinite strike across the State from October 10, as the Government refused to accept the outfit’s demands. The Govt even did not turn up for discussion, the general secretary of the association informed.

“The cease-wheel (Chaka-Bandh) agitation will begin from October 10 in the morning at around 6.00 am. This was decided in a meeting of district private bus owners’ associations from across the State. The stir will continue till our demands are met,” the outfit general secretary Debendra Sahu warned.

All Odisha Private Bus Owners’ Association decided to go on strike in its General Body meeting.

According to the association sources, the strike has been called opposing the proposed LAccMI scheme of Odisha Government, which will be launched on October 12. A 24-hour cease-wheel agitation was observed in the undivided Koraput district on the same day.

Worth mentioning, the association had also previously decided to go on an indefinite strike across the State from October 10, in its General Body meeting held on September 27.