Bhubaneswar: Bus strike will not be held in Odisha for the time being, said Transport Minister Tukuni Sahu after a meeting with the bus owners\u2019 association here, today.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe meeting between the Transport Department and the association members was successful. There will be no bus strike. The association will submit its demands in written form within October 30. A departmental committee will look into the demands,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n
However, bus owners\u2019 association secretary Debendra Sahu said the meeting was neither a success nor a failure. \u201cThe bus strike has been postponed till October 31. It has not been called off. The general body of the association will take decision on further course of action in a meeting to be held on October 30,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Notably, the association had on October 20 launched bus strike opposing the Location Accessible Multimodal Initiative (LAccMI) scheme of the state government. However, it later announced the postponement of the strike till October 31 on the very day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have demanded that buses under the scheme should only ply from panchayats to blocks and not to district headquarters. We have also urged the government not to introduce Mo Bus service in rural areas,\u201d said Sahu.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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