Around 2,000 factories along Birgunj-Pathalaiya corridor stop production

BIRGUNJ, Oct 3: Some 2,000 factories along Birgunj-Pathalaiya Industrial Corridor have stopped their production due to continuous banda for the past 50 days.

The banda was called by Madhesh-based political parties expressing their dissatisfaction over delineation of federal states and promulgation of new constitution.




The factories have not been able to import necessary raw materials as well as fuel required for the past nine days after agitators began staging sit-in at Miteri Bridge on the border point. All factories including that of large-scale and small scale have been directly hit hard due to this.

According to Birgunj Chamber of Commerce and Industry, there are some 2,200 factories along the corridor.

President of BCCI, Pradeep Kediya, said that most of the factories along the corridor have stopped their production.

The corridor faces the loss of around Rs 560 million every day and around 50,000 workers have been affected due to this, which has caused a loss of around Rs 25 billion so far. RSS

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