Passengers across the country are facing hardships for the second consecutive day due to a strike called by water transport workers.

Indian Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb is keen to materialise a waterway project that will connect Gumati in the state with Meghna of Bangladesh with the potentiality of changing the state’s transport system, a senior Tripura official says.

Labour Ministry calls transport owners and leaders for a meeting tomorrow to put an end to the ongoing deadlock in the country’s water transport sector.