Issuing a statement today, three transport employees associations - Nepal Transport Independent Workers Organisation, All Nepal Transport Workers Union, and Nepal Transport Workers Union - announced they were jointly launching a strike which no mass transit would ply within the Kathmandu valley from tomorrow. Discussion with agitating transportation workers today. KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 13The upseting transportation workers have backtracked from their gentlemans agreement with the government and announced today that they would stop public transport services forever from Tuesday. Both the engines of unfortunate plane were closed down According to the declaration, they will continue their protest up until their 10-point demands are satisfied.

They have actually also required immediate action against all those who attacked workers gathered at the New Bus Park in Gongabu today.

During the gathering at the New Bus Park according to our pre-scheduled program to reveal the result of Sundays discussion and publicise the programs of nationwide motion from February 15, the employees were assaulted by a group of about 30 individuals, including Sunil Kunwar, the basic manager of the brand-new bus park contractor business Lotse Multinational Pvt, the declaration reads.Putting forth different needs, including ditching of minimum traffic fine of Rs 1,500 and licence suspension, as well as modification to the Vehicle and Transport Management Act 1993, the 3 transport workers unions had actually submitted a memo with 10-point needs to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (MoPIT) on January 31.

In the conference held on Sunday, the ministry stated it would form a committee under the leadership of MoPIT Secretary Keshav Prasad Sharma to check out demands of unions and take necessary action by February 20.

Sunil Shrestha, senior department engineer at MoPIT, said he was unaware about transport workers strike.

If its real, its against the spoken understanding reached at Sundays meeting that they would not take any action till February 20.

Representatives of agitating unions might not be grabbed comment.Meanwhile, transport business owners likewise appear dissatisfied with the course of action transport employees have taken.According to Bijay Bahadur Swar, president of the Federation of Nepalese National Transport Entrepreneurs, agitating transportation employees must avoid turning to vandalism to have their concerns addressed.A variation of this article appears in the print on February 14, 2023, of The Himalayan Times .

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