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Eleven-point Directive To Transport Service Providers
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 22, 2012: the Department of Transport Management has increased the public transportation fare between 4.25 and 8.14 per cent making it effective on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 following the scientific standard of the transport fare setting prepared two years ago to offset the recent price rise in the petroleum products. So, the department has urged the transport entrepreneurs to strictly follow the 11-point directive on transport the government has issued.
After the decision of the Department of Transport Management on increasing the transport fares, the bus and microbus service providers in the Kathmandu Valley have increased the fare by 58-paisa in the short-route in the existing minimum fare.
Spokesperson for Department of Transport Buddhi Bahadur Khadka has said that the government has urged the transport entrepreneurs to follow the 11-point directive the government has issued making them responsible for providing students with discount on the fare, providing disabled persons with reserved seats and discount on fare, paying transportation tax on time, not overloading the vehicles, and providing the long-route passengers with tickets.
Increasing the prices of the petroleum products, the government has put more money in the coffer of the Nepal Oil Corporation. Thus, the government has stolen money from the pockets of the people only to put in the coffer of the most corruption-infested state-run company. If the government has to increase the prices of petroleum products for stopping petroleum products from flowing back to India, the government needs to return the money generated by the price rise to the consumers but the government has never done so. The government also imposes huge tax on the petroleum products ostensibly for repairing the roads but Nepalis find the roads have never been in good condition. Now, the government increasing the bus fare has put the commuters’ money in the pockets of transport service providers.
