Normal life resumed in Kaski district after the local administration and transport entrepreneurs reached consensus on the demands of the transport entrepreneurs.
Transport entrepreneurs agreed to call off their protest after the local administration formed a five-member committee headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police Surya Prasad Upadhaya to investigate Wednesday’s incident and losses incurred in it.
Gandaki Dhaulagiri Public Transport Coordination Committee had called a strike from Thursday protesting the thrashing of a driver and torching of a truck.
The locals had torched the truck and manhandled truck driver Sita Ram BK after he allegedly tried to the kill one Som Bahadur Rai of Okhaldhunga by reversing his truck after it hit and injured him.
Talking to Nepalnews, an official at the District Administration Office informed that the transport entrepreneurs agreed to call off their strike after agreement was held to provide compensation to the truck owner after the committee submits its report, and to provide medical facilities to the injured worker from the government.
The committee was asked to submit its report by accessing the damage within 45 days.
Pokhara based journalist Rabindra Bastola informed Nepalnews over phone that the normal life resumed in Pokhara after the local administration and transport entrepreneurs reached consensus.
He said that the long and short distance vehicles stranded due to the strike started plying and the market opened following the agreement.
Earlier in the day, transport workers organized rally in Pokhara denouncing the act. The angry protestors also vandalized Sundar Restaurant of Mahendrapul in course of their protest.
The protestors chanted slogans demanding security for drivers and reimbursements for the vandalised trucks.
Pokhara valley remained tense on Thursday as well due to the strike of transport workers.
In another incident, an unidentified group Thursday vandalised five trucks parked at the Budhi Bazaar stretch of the Prithivi Highway at midnight.