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Floods Of Shutdowns Causing Nepalis Incredible Troubles
BY KTM Metro reporter
August 10, 2012: gangs of youths unleashed by the NC and CPN-UML had been illegally and forcibly shutting down the vehicular traffic whimsically in a bid to force the prime minister to quit the office. The leaders of NC and CPN-UML were so naïve that they did not think of whether they should indulge in such an unconstitutional way of toppling the government, and if they succeed to topple the government whether they would be able to keep the chair of the prime minister or not, and whether the coalition of the UCPN-Maoist and UDMF would also resort to the same method to snatch the chair from them. Nepalis had been suffering from their unconstitutional power struggle. Stop such unconstitutional activities for the sake of the people say the civil society leaders.
Now, the transport entrepreneurs have gone on strike starting off today ostensibly for their own cause but obviously supporting the coalition of the NC and CPN-UML to topple the current government. They have put forward their demands for the government to set up a separate transport ministry, place the transport industry on a par with other industries and formulate an insurance policy friendly to transport entrepreneurs.
We have to see how long these irresponsible transporters could hold on to the shutdown of their services, as everyday they are losing hundreds of millions of rupees worth of revenues at the same time keeping hundreds of thousands of transport workers idle. Would these transporters get administrative leave or remain unpaid for the period they did not work remains to be seen.
The government needed to break the transport entrepreneurs’ cartel that had been setting the transport fares at their will causing high prices of transportation ultimately causing the high prices of consumer goods elsewhere in Nepal. This cartel also held monopoly on running the transport services not allowing any others to enter into this business without their consent. The transport entrepreneurs had set up the cartel illegally. So, the government needed to bulldoze the transport entrepreneurs’ cartel, as it had been bulldozing the illegally built sheds and houses on both side of the streets in Kathmandu.
