ODISHA DRIVERS MAHA SANGHA;“WE ALL HAVE CIVIC SENSE “LET PUBLIC SUFFER “NO LOSS NO GAIN TO MY FATHER ”(!).
Manoj Dash,Odishabarta
Odisha govt meeting with drivers’ Union outcome big Zero(!!) protesting demands of union fails as strike continues let public suffer
Odisha government and All Odisha Driver Mahasangha Union fail to end the state-wide drivers’ strike despite multiple high-level meetings. Key demands include welfare measures and infrastructure improvements.
Bhubaneswar,(09/07/25):After multiple again and again rounds of high-level discussions that stretched late into Monday evening, Odisha government officials and representatives of the ‘All Odisha Driver Mahasangha (Union)’ failed to arrive at a concrete resolution to end the ongoing state-wide drivers and transportation workers strike
Transport Minister Bibhuti Jena, who chaired the meetings, stated that the government has taken the drivers’ demands seriously and assured that several key proposals are under active consideration.
Among the proposals discussed were the inclusion of auto-rickshaw drivers in the Driver Welfare Board and the construction of toilets along every 100-km stretch of state highways.
Sources reported that despite back-to-back meetings, including a three-and-a-half-hour discussion at the Transport Minister’s residence and a separate two-and-a-half-hour session at Kharavela Bhavan in involving senior competent ,Crisis management bureaucrats, no final agreement has been reached. not fair (Odishan).
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