“For the final three days, there was losses to the tune of Rs 200 to 250 crore loss per day. The vehicles from Bengal to Nepal carry equipment components, fly ash, coal and so on and smaller vehicles carry perishable objects,” Sajal Ghosh, Normal Secretary of Federation of West Bengal Truck Operators’s Affiliation, mentioned. Life saving medicines and meals objects are additionally carried within the vehicles.
Ghosh advised ET that the vehicles are stranded within the Panitanki space of Siliguri from Monday as they may not cross the border and off-load the products. “The vehicles usually off-load the products by getting into Nepal from the Panitanki space. The vehicles journey a number of kilometres inside Nepal, off-load and return. Items are saved within the retailer homes and journey to completely different components of the nation. With borders getting sealed, they’re now standing in India making lengthy queues,” Ghosh mentioned.
Indo-Nepal border in North Bengal’s Panitanki is being guarded by SSB in shut coordination with state police. Strict vigil can also be being saved on the bridge which connects Nepal and West Bengal’s Panitanki.
Guv, CM in North Bengal
Banerjee is on a three-day administrative tour of north Bengal. “I’m staying in North Bengal monitoring the scenario. Chief Secretary Manoj Pant will even be monitoring. Our state administration and police, together with District Magistrates and Police Superintendents, from the North Bengal districts, are monitoring the scenario. Nepal is our neighbouring nation. Incidents of violence have occurred within the neighbouring nation,” the Chief minister mentioned.Requested about Bengali vacationers stranded in Nepal, Banerjee mentioned, “Indian vacationers are stranded in Nepal, together with Bengalis who like to journey. I request the vacationers to attend for a number of days and we are going to deliver them again. The Bengal administration is intently coordinating the matter with GOI. They’ll come again safely.”Banerjee mentioned that she has been saddened by the incidents of violence taking place in Nepal. She even wrote a poem on it. “Nepal was dominated by the Left -Maoist authorities. Now we have no relationship with the Left.” However nonetheless the incidents of violence disturbed her. “An individual was burnt alive and persons are rejoicing–this can’t be a part of humanity. Humanitarian issues ought to be learnt from Bengal. Some folks work of their self-interest in occasions of bother. I at all times attempt to assist folks.”
Banerjee will keep in North Bengal right this moment and return to Kolkata tomorrow, if peace returns in Nepal. In any other case, she’s going to keep there and proceed to observe the scenario in Nepal. “Now we have our duty within the time of disaster,” she identified.
Banerjee reiterated that she is not going to touch upon the disturbance in Nepal as it isn’t a state matter. “It’s the matter of the Ministry of Exterior Affairs. It’s not our inside state matter,” she mentioned.
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose can also be visiting the Indo-Nepal bordering areas of West Bengal’s Panitanki on Wednesday, as a part of his go to to North Bengal. “This go to is a part of my routine go to to the bordering areas. I’ve been frequently visiting bordering areas frequently. I’ll assess the scenario there and discuss to folks within the bordering areas. I can’t touch upon the Nepal scenario,” Bose mentioned right this moment.
Police Helpline
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First-hand accounts
Some Nepalese folks, from throughout the border, are getting into India by Panitanki with their households, from neighbouring Nepal villages for security. Two Bengalis from Kolkata return as their car was attacked by protestors.
“My home is in Nepal. Gen-Z group is setting ablaze authorities buildings to cease corruption. The commoners’ homes should not focused. We noticed protests and hearth all over the place. My home is within the bordering space, so I’ve entered India,” a Nepali citizen, getting into India together with his household, advised media individuals.
“Bother began on Monday. I went there for work and thought, would be capable to end it. The resort proprietor advised us to return. On our approach again to Raxaul, round 50-100 protestors stopped our car and tried to set it ablaze. After a number of requests by the driving force, who was Nepali, they allowed us to take a special route. The scenario was very scary,” mentioned two residents of Kolkata, who returned by the Raxaul border in Bihar right this moment.
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