Life back to normal in hills! Is it?
KALIMPONG/MIRIK/KURSEONG, 9 Sep 2013: With the Gorkha
Janmukti Morcha providing a two-day respite, market places across the hill were
today swarming with people busy collecting rations. There were long queues
before ATM counters even before the sun first peeped through.
The Haat bazaar area and ration shops in Kalimpong saw huge
numbers of customers and they kept on coming even in the evening.
Similar scenes were today witnessed in Mirik with residents
of the tourist town and its surroundings thronging the market places the entire
day. ATM counters had queues snaking long distances and banks hardly had any
breathing space.
The scenes in Kurseong were not different either and it
appeared almost everyone in town was at the market places buying essential
commodities. The arterial Hill Cart Road runs through town and traffic was
moving at a snail’s pace all along the day.
Several students who had gone home at the beginning of the
agitation were seen returning back to their respective schools.
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