Goa, Aug. 24 -- Furious over the government's failure to curb the menace of over-speeding and overloaded mining and coal trucks, members of the Canacona Congress frontal committees on Saturday staged an agitation at Polem Check Post, paralysing traffic.

The protest, led by Janardhan Bhandari, began at 11:30 am and sought to draw attention to the grave danger posed by heavy vehicles using the narrow Margao-Cuncolim-Canacona road. Locals have long complained that such trucks, often overloaded and driven recklessly, endanger lives and property.

The agitation came after the committees submitted a memorandum on August 12 to various departments, demanding an immediate ban on overloaded and speeding mining trucks on the Margao-Canacona Nationa...