Hardware Merchants’ Association Dimapur (HMAD) Wednesday resolved to put a ban on import of all kinds of cement into Dimapur until the responsible authority intervened and paid heed to the difficulties and grievances being faced by cement traders.
In a letter addressed to the deputy commissioner Dimapur, HMAD vice president Robin Sema said that following the revision of safe axle weights for transport vehicles by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, the cement merchants were compelled to adhere to the revised guidelines and reduced the volume of consignment. It stated that a ten-wheeler lorry carrying a total of 700 bags per trip had been reduced to 400 bags per trip.
HMAD said it has become impossible to operate with the enforcement of new policy coupled with number of other factors prevalent in Dimapur especially in terms of various forms of donations and contributions.
Further, HMAD urged the DC to apprise DMC to consider the existing revised policy of the ministry and revise the toll-tax levied on the transporters and to strictly enforce the permissible safe axle weights of goods.