KATHMANDU: The government is planning to operate public vehicles in three separate routes starting from mid-December.
After claimed end of transportation syndicate, the Department of Transport Management (DoTM) is preparing to issue separate route permits for big and small vehicles throughout the country.
According to the DoTM, the government is preparing to issue separate road permits in order to minimize the traffic problems daily faced by the ordinary people and reduce environmental pollution.
The DOTM is preparing to scrap the old road permission and to issue new ones. Gokarna Prasad Upadhyaya, information officer at the DOTM, said that they are preparing to issue big and long routes for bigger vehicles and short and small routes for smaller vehicles from mid-December.
According to Upadhyaya, three kinds of routes—primary, secondary and tertiary– are on pipeline for public vehicles. Big vehicles will operate on primary routes, middle vehicles ob secondary and small vehicles including tempo and micro-bus on tertiary routes.
“We are working on this concern. We are doing field verification,” he said. “We have already identified nine primary routes and others are undergoing. A group of department engineers, transportation entrepreneurs and stakeholders has been observing routes for bus stand, bus park and other facilities.”
