On Magh 12, 12 people died on the spot when a passenger bus (Bap 001-05 Kha 9975) heading from Kathmandu to Okhaldhunga met with an accident in Lilauti, Manthali Municipality-6.
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The public of Ramechhap is facing serious problems after Nepal Araniko Yatayat Sewa Pvt. Ltd. suspended bus services to and from Manthali via Kathmandu-Khurkot following a bus accident in Manthali Municipality-6 of Ramechhap.
On Magh 12, a passenger bus (Bap 001-05 Kha 9975) heading from Kathmandu to Okhaldhunga crashed in Lilauti, Manthali Municipality-6, killing 12 people on the spot and leaving 3 missing. Eight people were injured in the accident. The bodies of a child and a youth were found among the missing, according to the District Police Office, Ramechhap.
After the accident, an agreement was reached between the victim and the district administration after talks that lasted until midnight on Magh 12, but the Pvt. Ltd. had stopped bus services on the Kathmandu-Khurkot-Manthali road section from Falgun 1 after relatives of the deceased blocked the bus at various places. The daily life of the citizens of the rural areas of the district has been affected due to the non-operation of bus services.
Sumitra Lama of Likhutamakoshi Rural Municipality-5 says, 'The bus to the village has not been running for almost a week. My father is studying in Manthali, and I have stopped in Manthali as the return bus is not running.' He said that the closure of the service has affected the lives of the villagers as most of the buses reaching the villages are only Arniks.
With the suspension of the bus service of Arniks, citizens traveling to Melung and Okhaldhunga in Dolakha via Manthali have also been deprived of transport facilities. Subash Phuyal, district in-charge of the Ramechhap Public Transport Corporation, said that there has been no instruction from the center regarding the operation of the bus service.
'At present, Arniks bus service in Ramechhap is completely suspended. No information has been received from the center. There are complaints from businessmen that the local administration has not yet been able to create a safe environment,' he said. According to him, more than 70 buses used to ply between Kathmandu and Ramechhap daily.
Meanwhile, the Federation of Nepali Journalists, Ramechhap Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Federation of NGOs have drawn the attention of the District Administration Office, Ramechhap, saying that the bus service should be resumed immediately.
According to Deep Kumar Ghimire, president of the Federation of Journalists of Ramechhap, the attention of the Chief District Officer has been drawn to the fact that the public has been suffering due to the suspension of bus services for almost a week.
Chief District Officer Shyam Krishna Thapa said that there is no security problem for bus operations in the district and that the problem will be resolved soon as discussions are underway with the concerned bodies. Passengers have complained that vehicles have started charging more than the prescribed and arbitrary fares by taking advantage of the lack of adequate means of transport.
