EMN
Dimapur, April 20
The Karbi Anglong Chamber of Commerce (KACC) in Assam has urged the district transport officer of Karbi Anglong in Assam to “curb the menace of illegal plying of sand carrying trucks in the district with immediate effect.” The KACC issued a press release on Tuesday demanding action stating that, besides ‘illegal trucks,’ overloaded trucks were affecting the condition of roads.
The KACC has also alleged that sand stockists in Dimapur “bluff” sand buyers with “sand mixed with inferior quality local (Dhansiri) sand with superior quality transported from Karbi Anglong.”
In a letter addressed to the DTO of Karbi Anglong, the KACC said that the majority of the sand-carrying trucks coming from Nagaland to Karbi Anglong do not possess documents such as ‘Assam Permit, Registration, Pollution Certificate and most of all driving license.’
It also stated that the rate of accidents over the years “has increased dramatically and is concentrated only in the areas of Khatkhati to Garampani on NH-39 and Lahorijan to Dokmoka on NH-36 and most of the accidents resulting in loss of lives are caused by those sand carrying trucks which are plying without proper documents.”
“It is a surprising fact that most of the trucks have no Assam Permit since last fifteen years”, it stated, adding that those trucks overloaded with sand greatly affect the condition of the road in spite of repeated repairing,” the organization stated.
The organization assured that the ‘public from Dimapur and elsewhere’ are always ‘free to come and buy sand from Karbi Anglong, assuring full co-operation from sand mahaldars towards the buyers.’ It clarified that there was no ‘bandh of sale of sand’ in Karbi Anglong.
“...any sand mahaldar may open their open/establish their office or shop as per their convenient and to which no outsider (individual or organization) have the right to tell or direct the mahaldars to run their business,” the organization satted.
However, the KACC alleged that sand stockists in Dimapur “bluff” sand buyers with “sand mixed with inferior quality local (Dhansiri) sand with superior quality transported from Karbi Anglong.”
