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Passenger, bus traffic disrupted in Phulbani

BERHAMPUR: A mob protesting against inadequate drinking water supply disrupted passenger bus traffic to district headquarter town Phulbani in Kandhamal district on Monday.

Most of protestors were women. They blocked the main road that connects the bus stand at Phulbani.

They burnt tyres to keep the road blocked from 8 a.m. till noon.

No passenger bus could get out of Phulbani and no bus from outside could reach the bus stand also.

One of the leaders of the protestors M. Bisoi said despite several complaints to the authorities several areas of the town were not getting proper amount of drinking water supply through the pipe line.

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