Students block road

Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 10:17 [IST]

Puducherry, Oct 8 (UNI) Traffic to Villuppuram via Nettapakkam was affected for over an hour today as students of the Ramamurthy Government High School along with their parents put up a road blockade at Madukarai, demanding immediate filling up of vacant teachers' posts.

Police and education department authorities held talks with the agitators and pacified them.

Meanwhile, fish vendors here blocked the busy Nehru street, demanding action against the employees of a textile showroom here for allegedly assaulting a fisherman yesterday. The agitation was called off after police assured them to take action against the culprits.

UNI

Topics: AGITATION-PONDY-ROAD BLOCKADE

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