With an ambitious target to control city pollution and manage public transportation system in the country, the government is all set to put a ban on public vehicles older than 20 years from February 28. However, the effectiveness of the ban and whether the move would help achieve the main objective - to improve the environment - is debatable.The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) - the transportation sector regulatory body - has prepared a directive to implement the new rule on old public vehicles strictly.
The government had published a notice in Nepal Gazette on March 1, 2015, directing transport entrepreneurs not to operate 20-year-old vehicles effective from February 28. However, DoTM suspects that a huge number of such old vehicles are still plying the roads. As a result, the DoTM plans to aggressively monitor the transportation sector after February 28 and phase out all old public vehicles.
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