Gurugram: Police are busy removing barricades, shop owners are preparing to reopen their outlets for more than a year, and the owner of gas stations patiently wait for vehicle feet to increase.
This is a scene played on Saturday morning in Shahjahanpur on the border Haryana-Rajasthan which has been an agitation site to protest farmers since December last year.
Then at night, all the highway Delhi-Jaipur near the border Haryana-Rajasthan was thrown open to the public.
Last year, on December 13, a number of farmers from neighboring countries Haryana and Rajasthan blocked Jaipur-Delhi Carriagoway from a high-speed corridor near Shahjahanpur from Alwar Regency.
Some efforts were made to empty the site, but the tough protesters had stood on their land.
Farmers have started to leave the agitation site since late Friday night.
At the beginning of Saturday morning, the site was gone.
The rest of the tent, food package, posters of Bhagat Singh lay without supervision, and an old farmer bid Asieu to people from the Sikh community who offered Langar on the site marking the end of protest and resuming the movement of traffic and business street business activities.
“I will reopen my food on Sunday.
Today, I’m cleaning the place and set something.
My shop is closed by the police during the Covid locking and when I reopened, it must be closed because of all these stretches.
Arrested by farmers,” said Ashok Kumar, the local Dhaba owner.
While the villagers and locals have promised support to the causes of farmers, they remember the tribulation of travel they must prepare.
Commuter also, sighed relief when they were forced to wrestle with jam for one hour every day and a long detour.
“There are congestion all day and in the days there are several hours of traffic .
the place.
The villagers complained that when the highway was blocked, vehicles were transferred to the village road and the heavy movement of this vehicle for a year had damaged all stretches.
“All the way in villages such as Sakatpura and Kharola are repaired before locking now in a mess.
For the past year, the car to the truck, and the industry trailer took these streets when the highway was blocked,” said Manoj Kumar, a local.
Highway blocking also results in a big loss for various businesses such as hotels, gas stations, transporter and small traders.
Trucks are loaded with stranded items for hours due to blockades and delays impact on industrial supply chains in Bawal, Rewari, and Manesar.
Pelangi in places like Neemrana claimed that their bookings also took a hit because of a blockade.
The owner of the gas station also claimed to suffer a big loss.
“One year this blockade has had an impact on the business ecosystem of this area.
All shop owners and hospitality business people face losses.
And gas stations as we are almost excessive.
It is difficult to pay for our staff and we have to take a loan to save it a business running,” Rued Kanwar Singh, local gas station.
Meanwhile, the farmers thanked local residents for their support and expressed regrets that the protest caused discomfort.
“We were forced to sit in the open, challenging cold winter nights, summer evenings, and storms and rain for one year because of our lives and livelihoods at stake.
We thank all the locals for helping us maintain protests,” Jai Kisan Andolan spokesman for Sandeep Yadav.