Day 7 of ‘rail roko’: Ambala cloth traders feel Shambhu heet
Hindustan TimesA week after farmers started their “Rail Roko” agitation at the Shambhu railway station in Punjab’s Patiala district, nearly 1,000 passenger trains have been affected in the Ambala division with a huge impact on the railway’s economy and Ambala’s cloth market. 900 trains cancelled, diverted Naveen Kumar, senior divisional commercial manager of Ambala railway division, said, “So far, 990 mail-express and passenger trains have been cancelled or short-terminated/originated or diverted via two alternate routes.” Other than this, 103 goods trains mostly of essential goods have also been diverted in the last one week. Meanwhile, Mandeep Singh Bhatia, divisional railway manager of Ambala railway division, said other than ensuring the least inconvenience to the passengers, they are also making sure that there is not much impact on the delivery of essential goods, including coal, petroleum, fertiliser and other items, to Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Vishal Batra, president of the cloth market association, said his industry could be the most affected in Ambala and the ongoing wedding season was spoiled due to the “Rail Roko” protest.
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