KATHMANDU: Sajha Yatayat has brought 20 new city buses to operate in Kathmandu Valley. Mahendra Raj Pandey, manager at Sajha Yatayat said that the new buses have been bought from the amount of share of the organization purchased by Kathmandu Metropolitan City and Lalitpur Metropolitan City.
The buses have been brought from India and have now arrived at Raxaul. He said the buses would reach Kathmandu within few days and they would demand route permission from the government as per the need and demand.

The KMC had purchased the share of Rs 50 million and Lalitpur Metropolitan city bought share of Rs 10 million of the organisation.

The Sajha Yatayat had started its service first from 2019 BS. The service of Sajha Yatayat was closed due to various reasons in the intervening period. However, Sajha Yatayat has resumed it service since 2070 BS after purchasing new buses.

BIRATNAGAR: Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Thursday said he would face the party’s special convention if the party’s district presidents were to call one.

Talking to reporters at Biratnagar Airport, Deuba said he would confront the special convention called by what he said ‘a small number of 20 to 25 district presidents’ of the party.

Deuba said had there been late Girija Prasad Koirala, he would have expelled the district presidents if they had convened such a meeting that is aimed at tarnishing the party’s image. “I, however, will not take any action against them,” Deuba said.

He said that the party’s disciplinary committee would look into the issue.

KATHMANDU: President Bidya Devi Bhandari will inaugurate the Eighth National Games on April 18 in Nepalgunj.

President Bhandari is scheduled to inaugurate the National Games taking place in State -5 from April 5-24, at the Nepalgunj Stadium, according to the National Sports Council.

Prime Minister KP Oli is scheduled to conclude the National Games.

Meanwhile, the date and venue for the Ninth National Games would be announced on the concluding ceremony.

However, the games of championship would begin from April 10 where a total of 5,211 athletes would compete for 1,307 medals.

KATHMANDU: The disgruntled district party presidents have set to launch nationwide signature campaign against the central committee demanding  the review in its decision against the Mahasamiti mandate.

Participants at the two-day informal gathering of district presidents said the campaign is mooted to pile pressure on party leadership to withdraw the decision taken against the mandate of Mahasamiti.

Amar Singh Pun, NC Rolpa district president, said the gathering also discussed the need to back party leadership to get Mahasamiti mandate reflected through the central committee as per the commitment made earlier.

It may be noted that the Mahasmiti meeting held four months ago had decided that all the office-bearers and central committee members should be elected from ward level to represent the Mahasamiti – the highest representative body of the Nepali Congress.

The Mahasmiti also emphatically raised another issue that the party should not provide reservation facility to an individual more than one time.

However, the central committee endorsed the statute of the party without taking into consideration the concerns of the Mahasamiti.

The gathering also decided to make necessary coordination to raise relief assistance to the disaster-hit people of Bara and Parsa districts.

Also discussed in the meeting are consolidation of internal party organization and nationwide campaign against the wrongdoings of the government, shared NC Nuwakot president Jagadish Narsingh KC.

The gathering was attended by 41 district presidents of the NC.

KATHMANDU: If you travel the under-construction Chabahil-Sankhu road section, you will witness dust, smoke and heaps of garbage strewn everywhere along the road. The locals are bearing the brunt of wretched road condition. The hardest-hit are the traffic police due to sorry state of affairs of the road.

“There is traffic mess as the raw materials including gravel meant for road construction are piled up in the middle part of the road. There is no alternative to whistle-blowing to remove traffic congestion. We need to get unmasked for blowing whistle every time risking our health”,Samir Dahal, a traffic police said.

Hridayesh Sapkota, traffic police chief at Metropolitan City Police Circle Bouddha, said, “We are on road from dawn to dusk. Traffic police even go beyond recognition due to dust. We are prone to common cold, cough, allergy and lungs related complications because of high exposure to dust”.

A total of 42 traffic police personnel are on daily duty in Bouddha area, informed Sapkota. Particularly, the traffic police deputed in the area of Sankhu and Bouddha are more vulnerable to dust. The road widening drive here has been put in place since a long time back but it seems to be time-consuming.

Traffic police are performing their duty on the road section for 20 hours a day which has put them at higher risks, said traffic police head constable Bal Krishna Pant.

It is still uncertain when the road will come to a smooth shape and the people and traffic police get liberation from the troubled road, though the Kathmandu Valley Road Widening Project said it would complete the construction soon.

The road section has seen all-pervasive chaos with scattered and uncoordinated works on drainage construction, road expansion and gravel placement.The road structure has not come to a smooth shape in the long interval of time.

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Oli has held a meeting with chief ministers of all seven provinces at his official residence, Baluwatar on Thursday morning.

The meeting dwelled on the issues related to development, financial management and misappropriation, staff crunch and hassles seen on the coordination between central and the provincial governments.

“The offices of the chief ministers will set agendas in coordination with the office of the prime minister and submit in the next formal meeting,” said Mahendra Bahadur Shahi, chief minister of Karnali Province.

The next inter-provincial meeting will be held on April 27.

In the meeting, the chief ministers also apprised the prime minister of their works done by the respective provincial governments, a source at the prime minister’s secretariat told Khabarhub.

KATHMANDU: The disgruntled faction of the Nepali Congress has decided to launch Mechi-Mahakali campaign against president Sher Bahadur Deuba.

A gathering of the disgruntled district party presidents held on Wednesday in Thamel took a decision to this effect. A total of 51 district party presidents were present in the meeting organized by the NC Kathmandu District Working Committee.

The leaders of the NC are dissatisfied after the Central Working Committee meeting overstepped the decisions endorsed by the Mahasamiti meeting.

KATHMANDU: Nepal Police has arrested as many 540 leaders and cadres of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Netra Bikram Chand alias ‘Biplav’ so far.

Police arrested them for their involvement in criminal activities  in the last one year from across the country.

Materials including letter pads for fund raising, flyers, postcards and other documents were also seized during the arrest, said police spokesperson Uttam Raj Subedi.

Biplav leaders and cadres went underground after the government banned its activities following the bomb explosion at Ncell headquarters in Bhainsepati and its towers based across the country.

KATHMANDU: As many as 2,000 houses were destroyed in the deadly clone that hit Bara and Parsa districts in Province 2 on last Sunday, according to a preliminary report.

According to a preliminary report on the storm destruction submitted by the Ministry of Home Affairs, a total of 1, 895 houses were badly damages and 955 houses sustained partial damages in Bara district alone.

The freak windstorm destroyed three brick industries and one heath post in the district. Similarly, 437 houses were destroyed in Parsa district.

However, the detailed report on the destruction is yet to be made public.

SYANGJA: In a bid to relieve woes being faced by female students, Fedikhola Rural Municipality has launched a mensuration sanitary management  campaign at a school by installing a automatic machine to distribute sanitary pads.

A menstruating student can get a sanitary pad by inserting a ATM card into the machine. As many as 20 pads can be withdrawn at a time which is monitored by a class teacher  and the respective monitor.

“A menstruating student can obtain sanitary pads once she switches on the bottom after inserting an ATM card into the machine,” said Ghanashyam Subedi, chief of Fedikhola Rural Municipality.

This is facility is available to the female students from class six to 10. School bears the expenses for the cost of the pads,  not the students, said Subedi.