Jharna Poudel of Kathekhola Rural Municipality-7 left her nursing daughter at home and went to Baglung market on Saturday for the Teachers Service Commission exam to be held in Pokhara. He missed his exam from 1 pm as he did not get a bus from Baglung to Pokhara.

In Gandaki, more than 50 people from different villages could not take the exam when transporters stopped public transport in protest against the ride-sharing regulations.

The transporter snatched the key of the jeep from the village on the pretext of transporting passengers. She did not have the courage to walk back home after four hours of labor. Seeing his problem, a young man took him home on a motorcycle. Even the businessmen did not allow the rickshaws carrying elderly people who had gone to the temple of Baglung Kali to ply. Those who came from the ward level to the municipality to change the plan also suffered because of the traffic stop. 

For the past three days, the movement of transport professionals has affected the students who come to study at the multiple campuses from Parbat and Myagdi to Dhaulagiri, and even the employees who commute daily. Apart from that, the sick and young people preparing to go abroad have also complained of suffering.

Tej Bahadur Gurung of Dordi rural municipality-8 Tapgaon of Lamjung has a ticket to fly to UAE on May 21. He came from the village and is stranded in Bensi Sahar because the bus to Kathmandu is not running. Keshav Bhat, who works in the Manang Marsyangdi hydropower project in Manang, arrived in Bensihar on Sunday morning to go to Mahendranagar. He is also in trouble for not getting a vehicle for the whole day. 

In Lamjung, travelers who are going to work abroad and have to go on a long journey are stranded due to the lack of public transport. Passengers had to turn back from the road as the businessmen started to crack down on the vehicles operating inside, writing 'reserve', tourist and ambulance vehicles. Vehicles have not moved towards Manang either. According to Kishore Kumar Basnet, president of Marsyangdi Transport Transport Company Pvt. Ltd., the operation of vehicles towards Manang has been stopped in solidarity with the protest by the public transport businessmen. 

Lamjung traffic police chief Sai Bhim Bahadur Ranabhat said that other vehicles were operated in coordination with businessmen. District Police Chief DSP Resham Bohra said that the vehicles carrying tourists were escorted to their destination. The ambulance has not stopped. We have also coordinated private vehicles," he said. "Until now, no untoward incident has occurred." 

The impact of the traffic stop has also disrupted the passengers in Gorkha. Balkumari Thapa of Gorkha Municipality-11 waited for hours on Sunday to reach Gorkha Hospital for her daughter's treatment. She barely stopped a private car and came to Gorkha Hospital, but she had the same pain on her way back. She returned home with the help of relatives. Even a vehicle that came to the wedding on Sunday afternoon was stopped for a while at Bahrkilo located in Gorkha municipality-11. 

On Friday afternoon, a bus carrying passengers from Kathmandu was vandalized by transport businessmen. According to the District Police Office Gorkha, the front glass of the bus was damaged. As there is no traffic in Gorkha, Ambukhareni and rural areas, passengers have to walk for hours to reach their destination. Some have gone to their destinations by paying expensive fares to private vehicles. In protest against the ride-sharing regulations, transport businessmen stopped public transport operations in Gorkha on Friday. 

Similarly, transporters have blocked the road by staying in Kushma, Dimuwa and other places in Parbat. On Saturday evening, the police used force to send the vehicles from Kushma to their destination. "After the ride stopped, people's life became difficult," said Police Inspector Ram Prasad Sapkota, Information Officer of the District Police Office, Parbat, "On Saturday, we escorted 35/40 vehicles at a time. When the road was opened, there was a general rush. According to him, there were more vehicles carrying pilgrims returning from Mustang. In Baglung, the agitating businessmen broke the glass of the shared bus escorted by the police on Saturday. 

As public transport is stopped, the common people of Tanahun have not been able to reach their destination easily. Transport businessmen have not driven public vehicles on the rural and interior road sections and Prithvi Highway in Tanahun. Harimaya Thapa Magar of Rishing Rural Municipality-1 Kahun Shivpur, who has been running a fruit business in Damauli targeting public transport passengers, says that there has been no business for three days.

'This shutdown has made food vendors like us very healthy,' she said, 'The fruits that we bought with the creditor have also started to rot.' A joint team of Armed Police and Nepal Police conducts escorting from Pokhara to the district border Kotre. From there Mankamana Gana Tanahun escorted with local Nepal Police and took them to Muglin said Police Inspector Raju Adhikari of District Police Office Tanahun.

Public transport businessmen have been protesting against the Ride Sharing (Regulation and Management) Regulations, 2082 published in the gazette on May 1 by the Gandaki state government. Public transport has been closed in Gandaki since June 16, saying that a regulation has been introduced to hire vehicles with red number plates against their purpose, and that their investment has been neglected. From Monday, the businessmen have announced that they will stop public transport operations across the country.  Although a committee has been formed to negotiate the

, the transport businessmen have refused to sit in the negotiations. Their main demand is that the regulations brought by ride-sharing and self-ride (renting red plate vehicles) should be repealed. Section 8 of the Vehicle and Transport Management Act, 2049 stipulates that private vehicles cannot be used for transport services and Section 12 stipulates that vehicles used for one purpose cannot be used for another purpose. Transport businessmen have been saying that they should not rent vehicles with red number plates by showing this arrangement. 

The operation of renting two and four-wheeled vehicles with red plates is not acceptable under any circumstances, says Yogendra Bahadur KC, secretary of the National Federation of Nepal Transport Professionals. "If two-wheelers are to provide services like ours, they should have black number plates," he said. He alleges that the state government intends to displace the public transport business.

There are 15 thousand vehicles in Gandaki province. We have given direct employment to around 45,000 people, he said, at the rate of 4 people in a family, if we talk about petrol pumps, motor parts, lubricants, how many people have lived? It has been done against the law to displace our profession.' 

While the businessmen are saying that the regulation has come against the Union Government's Vehicle Act, the state government has considered the law passed by the state assembly, the decision of the Supreme Court in favor of ride-sharing operations, the revised provisions of the Industrial Business Act, 2076 as the theoretical and legal basis for bringing the regulation. In 2076, the Gandaki Province Vehicle and Transport Management Act, 2076 was passed by the Provincial Assembly. In sub-section (4) of section 13 of the said act, there is a provision that vehicles registered for private purposes can transport passengers after completing the necessary procedures and charging the prescribed fare on their route and carrying passenger insurance. 

The Supreme Court on June 13, 2081 ordered to bring ride sharing to legal standards and organize it. The full text of the decision made by the joint bench of the then Chief Justice Vishwambhar Prasad Shrestha and Judge Tek Prasad Dhungana was published last December. In full, the Union Government was directed to implement the necessary legal provisions for the registration, operation, management and monitoring of transport service businesses such as ride-sharing. 

According to Kamal Kumar Adhikari, Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Coordinator of the Negotiation Committee, the regulation is not against the law as claimed by the transport businessmen due to the provisions of Article 304 (1) of the Constitution. In the restrictive phrase of Article 304 (1) of the Constitution, it is said, "A law that is in conflict with this Constitution shall automatically be invalidated to the extent that it is in conflict after one year from the date of the first session of the Federal Parliament under this Constitution." "According to the meaning of the court's order, while the provisions of the existing law remain the same, it is to issue and implement the regulations related to ride sharing," he said.

Meanwhile, the businessmen have asked the tourist vehicle owners not to carry Nepali passengers in the vehicles with green plates. The Public Transport Bachau Sangharsh Committee has written a letter to Nepal Association of Tour and Travel (Natta) asking them to cut tickets for foreign guests only. But the president of Natta Gand, Kishore Dahal, said that there is no reason not to board the tourist vehicle when passing through Nepali.

'Pokhara visit year. After going from one place to another, he is a tourist. There is no reason not to go up,'' he said. Pokhara Tourism Council, Pokhara Hotel Association, Pokhara Chamber of Commerce and Industry have demanded to find an alternative to strike as tourists and travelers are suffering.

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'Ride-sharing' regulations  repeal impossible

Surendraraj Pandey, Chief Minister, Gandaki Pradesh

The regulations introduced by the Gandaki Province government have caused a stir across the country. Transport businessmen have started a protest. How do you see this movement as a decision-maker?

There was no need for the transport businessmen to make such a commotion about the regulations. Currently, ride sharing is still illegal. We have brought regulations to tie it into law, arrange security and insurance, and collect revenue for the province. The High Court, the Supreme Court have ordered to regulate ride-sharing by making rules and laws. In the present era of open economy, it is not theoretically possible to say that we will not compete, we will monopolize, we will set up a syndicate.  Do businessmen complain that they were tried to destroy themselves because of the

regulations?  While drafting the

regulations, we held discussions with businessmen and labor organizations at various stages. We waited for one-and-a-half years after they said that they would not accept ride-sharing and would not allow private companies to come. There is no way for them to accept it under any circumstances. The government will work in favor of the people. It is not to destroy any one business, but it cannot be done by killing people only for businessmen. There is no loss for the transporter. It's not that they don't understand, it's that they don't want to understand.  The

rules are not returned under any circumstances? 

The government is ready if there is a need to make some changes after discussing this regulation. We have also formed a negotiation team for that. They are not here to negotiate. Revocation of regulations is not possible. 

What is the meeting point between the transport business and the government? The problem can be solved through

talks. 

The businessmen say that red plates were allowed to be leased against the provisions of the Vehicle Act of the Union? 

The constitution issued in the year 2072 states that if the provisions conflicting with the constitution are not amended within one year of the meeting of the federal parliament for the first time, they will automatically become inactive. Therefore, showing the Act of 2049 is useless. The court has repeatedly said to make a law about it and implement it. Showing the law of 2049 means not reading the constitution and not understanding the judgment of the Supreme Court. 

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Private cannot make public transport

Vijay Bahadur Swar, Nepal transport businessmen National Federation

Are you going to stop transport across the country from Monday?

Yes, all traffic with black number plates will be stopped. Short, medium and long distance public transport running in all seven provinces will be closed. Why are you going to stop

?

was given the name ride-sharing, but the work began entirely with public transportation. Taxis and two-wheelers are operating as ride sharing in Kathmandu. The Department of Transport Management is making standards for the operation of two-wheelers. But now in Gandaki province, four-wheelers are allowed to be used as ride-sharing even for 15-year-olds. Accordingly, the policy was introduced. However, this does not fall within the policy of ride sharing.

It is said that the vehicle is registered on a red plate and written RS (Ride Sharing) in a circle. Now it costs more than 4 million to buy a new taxi. When the same policy is implemented in the valley, if a 15-year-old taxi is used for ride sharing, it will cost 3/4 lakh. Why allow such a vehicle to be registered? If it is to be given, it should be given on the basis of public number plates. States cannot make laws that conflict with federal laws. A practice for a purpose cannot be operated for another purpose.

then did you mean that should be strict in the Ride Sharing?

we are not opposing to technology. Two-based arrangements arrangements are mentioned in the Transportation Act, 2049. It is said that two treasures can be operated like public transport. This is becoming procedure. We suggest that we also organize. If