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192 transport companies get registered after decision to scrap syndicates

File: Public buses at a bus park in Kathmandu

Kathmandu, June 20

The Department of Transport Management says as many as 192 transport companies have got their registration for public transport after the government decided not to let transport entrepreneurs’ committees impose their monopoly on the roads.

Though more than one and half months have passed since the official decision to stop registration and renewal of entrepreneurs’ committees as NGOs, thereby effectively ending their existence as syndicates, no big groups have come to the Department for registration, apparently with a hope that the government would bow down to them upon failing to implement the decision.

The legal status of all entrepreneurs’ committee will end on July 14, the final day of current fiscal year. It has been said that large scale entrepreneurs have hoped that the government would revoke the decision by then claiming it was impractical and unjust. Therefore, they are now in the ‘wait and see’ mode.

The Department in total has registered and given permits to 305 companies to operate public buses across the country.

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