Kathmandu, April 25
The protest programmes called by the Federation of Nepalese National Transport Entrepreneurs against the government decision to stop registering and renews transport entrepreneurs’ committees as NGOs have formally begun today.
However, the protesters could not leave any impact on the Valley transport system on the first day.
The Federation has called on individual bus owners to defy the scheduled time table and run the vehicles haphazardly on any route so as to create a pressure on the government with messy traffic. However, no one obeyed the call and all of them followed the schedule as usual, according to traffic police.
DSP Mukunda Marasini, joint spokesperson of the Metropolitan Traffic Police Division, says his office had mobilised additional personnel to manage the traffic considering the announced protest programme. However, they needed not use any force as the bus owners themselves chose to skip the protest.
The Federation’s General Secretary Saroj Sitaula, however, says their protest programme in fact disturbed the traffic.
