Most of the business establishments, traffic, educational institutions functioned normally
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The Jammu Bandh called by J&K Bar Association on Monday had no impact in most of the areas, even as the lawyers held protests and burnt tyres at various places in support of their demand for a multipurpose building complex to house all tribunals, registration offices and commissions here.
While transport was easily available to passengers, travelling by trains, the eateries adjoining the Railway Station functioned normally. The public and private transport plied smoothly across the City. Educational institutions and offices functioned as per routine while the movement of heavy vehicular traffic on the inter-district roads plied as usual. The shops and business establishments were shut in some areas of the main city, it was business as normal in other parts.
The market places in Satwari, Gangyal, Miran Sahib, Akhnoor, City North, Narwal fruit and vegetable market were humming with normal activities. Reports of usual busniesss and other activities were receioved from Miransahib RS Pura and Nagrota though bandh has partial impact in North and South Zone.
Led by Bar association president M K Bhardwaj, hundreds of lawyers took out a rally from the high court complex and held demonstrations at Janipur against the administration.
They blocked the road and burnt tyres to enforce a shutdown call given by them in support of their long pending demand, which, however, had partial impact.
“We have given a bandh call in support of the fulfillment of our demands. It was decided at a civil society meeting. We appeal to all the people of Jammu to observe the bandh so the government is forced to fulfill our demands,” Bhardwaj told reporters. He said the association had given a week’s time for the government to respond. “We waited for its decision, but we did not hear from them until last (Sunday) evening. So, we went ahead with the shutdown call, he said.
The lawyers have been demanding a multi-storey building that can house all offices related to judicial work, including registrations, Central Administrative Tribunal, Debt Recovery Tribunals and Armed Forces Tribunal among others within the court premises.