Kathmandu, August 20
Traffic police in Kathmandu have reportedly barred staff of banks from reporting to their offices this morning, on the first day of the weeklong prohibitory order in the valley.
Consequently, Nepal Bankers’ Association, an organisation of managers of all commercial banks of the country, has directed its members to shut the services today. “The police troubled our staff,” the organisaton’s president Bhuwan Kumar Dahal says, “Therefore, I have directed them not to open the banks today.”
Some bankers claim a few chief executive officers of the banks have also been stopped on the road.
“We had agreed with the CDO that we would open eight branches of a bank in the valley–five in Kathmandu, one in Bhaktapur, and two in Lalitpur. It was said the bank staff could move by showing their identity cards, but they were stopped today,” Dahal adds.
Bhim Prasad Dhakal, the chief of the Metropolitan Traffic Police Division, however, says the cops were acting as per directives from the higher authorities.
