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It has been a year and a day since the construction of the bus park in the headquarters Kushma was completed. It has been six months since the intensive urban development and building construction office under the federal government completed the construction of the Kushma bus park and handed it over to the Kushma municipality.
Locals and transport professionals who have been waiting for the day when the newly constructed bus park of Bandrebedi located in Kushma municipality-6 will come into operation are now disappointed.
'There is a compulsion to park the bus on the street . There is no place in the end . When parking a vehicle on the road, there are vandalism to theft," said Ram Nepali, a transport businessman. "It was easy to park there because there was no bus park. Now the bus park has been built, but the bus has not been kept.'
Although the Pokhara-Baglung road was extended in 2048, a modern bus park could not be built in Kushma. It had been more than two decades since the Shivalaya Religious Development Guthi allocated a land of about 12 ropani 12 annas for the bus park. Although the leaders of the political parties reached out to the voters by making the bus park construction a slogan, the construction of the bus park could not gain momentum.
The construction of the bus park, which started in 2079, was completed in one year. The municipality has not been able to put the newly built modern bus park with the building under its responsibility from the Office of Intensive Urban Development and Building Construction.
Due to the lack of effective maintenance, the passenger compartment of the bus park has started to collapse. The windows and doors of the toilet are broken. The electric bulbs have also been broken and the paint on the walls is about to fly. Currently, the bus park has become a gathering place for drug addicts to learn to drive during the day and at night.
Kushma municipality has claimed that the bus park will be operational within some time. Chief Administrative Officer Netra Prasad Paudel said that the executive board meeting agreed and decided to allow the bus park to be operated by a private company. "In the next two to four days, we will publish the rate and go to the contract process", he said, "We have set a fixed annual rent, and those who want to take the contract for an amount above that, we will entrust the bus park to them."
The arrangement of vehicle parking has been arranged in two places within the bus park arm built at a cost of 66.6 million 3 thousand 250 rupees. A two-storied building with a ticket counter, passenger waiting room, toilets and half a dozen shuttered rooms for business purposes has been constructed.
The municipality is confident that the taxes collected from the bus park and the fees for the rent will increase the internal revenue of the municipality, businesses such as hotels, restaurants, shops around the bus park will flourish and jobs will be created . But the municipality has also lost its income due to non-operation of the bus park on time.
Bal Bahadur Gurung, Head of Traffic Police of District Traffic Police Office Parbat, says that there is a problem in traffic management due to lack of bus park. "If the bus park comes into operation, it would be easy to take action on those who park randomly on the road", he says, "Now it is not possible to say put here, put there". If you can't give an alternative, there is only a dispute rather than removing the vehicle from the road.'
He says that if the traffic police office can be placed in the newly constructed bus park, it will be easier for the protection of the bus park and the safety of the vehicles. Similarly, transporters have to park their vehicles and wait for passengers on the roads of Shivalaya Chowk located in the headquarters Kushma. From here, public vehicles leave for cities like Kathmandu, Pokhara, Sunauli, Biratnagar, Bhairahawa, Nepalgunj, Kakadbhita.
