It has been found that buses plying between Dunai-Kathmandu, Kathmandu-Dunai, and Dunai-Nepalgunj and Nepalgunj-Dunai charge different fares from passengers.
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It has been found that ticket counters and businessmen on long-distance buses in the Himalayan districts are arbitrarily charging fares.
It has been found that buses running on Dunai-Kathmandu, Kathmandu-Dunai and Dunai-Nepalgunj, Nepalgunj-Dunai are charging different fares from passengers.
Passenger Panna Newar, who reached Dolpa from Kathmandu on a Dolpo Samyukta Yatayat bus last Friday, complained. 'I paid three thousand for the half-way journey.' He said, 'It is found that the ticket counters in Dolpa and Kathmandu of the bus are arbitrarily charging the fares by looking at the behavior of the passengers.' He said that the most common people are the ones who are being victimized by looking at the passengers in this way.
He said that passengers from Upper Dolpa who returned to vote in the upcoming elections were charged between four thousand eight hundred and five thousand. Passengers have complained that the ticket counters of buses operated by committees such as Battalion Transport, Majbud Transport, Maiya Kazi and others from Dolpa to Kathmandu are charging arbitrary fares.
Like the buses going from Dolpa to Kathmandu, the night buses going from Dolpa to Nepalgunj are also charging arbitrary fares. He says that although the fare from Kathmandu to Dolpa is 5,800, the fares vary depending on the destination of the passengers.
Passengers have complained that even when passengers are being charged arbitrary fares, the police and traffic police check posts placed at various places in Dolpa are not paying any attention.
Meanwhile, Deputy Superintendent of Police of the District Police Office, Dolpa, Ruk Bahadur Khadka, said that he was serious about this issue and had instructed to immediately check the fares. He also said that instructions have been given to various police posts to maintain uniformity in the fares of bus tickets purchased from various bus counters in the district.
