GUWAHATI: The All Assam Students Union has expressed concern at the growing traffic congestion triggered by trucks parked on the highway for loading/unloading of cattle from a market in the Nine Mile area along the Assam-Meghalaya border.
The students union alleged that about 50-60 cattle are loaded into the trucks parked on the road every day, defying the “No Parking” signs put up there by Jorabat police.
“Cattle from Assam and places outside the Northeast are brought to the market and subsequently loaded into these trucks every day. Such an exercise has triggered severe traffic problems in the area,” All Assam Students Union, Kamrup metro unit general secretary, Dibyajyoti Medhi told The Shillong Times hereon Monday.
The students union slammed the Jorabat traffic police for alleged ignorance or lack of monitoring that has led to parking of heavy vehicles on the highway in the area.
“We appeal to the city traffic police to intensify patrolling in the area and rein in traffic violators so that the commuters do not have to bear the brunt of such defiance,” Medhi said.