Farmers weren’t the only ones feeling happy and relieved on Thursday to hear the Samyukta Kisan Morcha announce that the yearlong agitation against the farm laws has been called off and protest sites will be vacated, the latest by December 12. Commuters too were a much relieved lot as finally, a year of harrowing snarls and long winding diversions was drawing to a close.
But the officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) said opening of National Highway 9 (NH-9) and the Delhi-Meerut Expressway (DME) lanes will take more time and a round of inspections to assess damage, if any, to the highway, of which the expressway is a part.
