Kathmandu, Oct. 3: Passengers
visiting the New Bus Park at Gongbu in the capital for booking tickets have
been returning empty handed after ticket counters told them that all the
tickets have been already booked.
The Nepal National Transport
Entrepreneurs' Federation had opened booking tickets from September 26
targeting the Dashain festival.
Ravi Bhandari, who visited the New
Bus Park for booking tickets for Dang, said he could not get ticket even if he
arrived at the Bus Park at 4:00 am.
Bhandari said returning passengers
saying all tickets have been booked within one week of opening of booking is
promoting black marketing.
Even on the first day of ticket
booking, the ticket counters had returned the passengers saying all the tickets
were booked but tickets were provided to the passengers after a team of
government officials reached the counters.
The
Federation had opened for ticket booking from different counters including
Koteshwor, Gaushala, Satdobato and Kalanki
in view of the pressure of passengers.
General Secretary of the Federation,
Dolnath Khanal, said the ticket counters might have told that all the tickets
have been booked as they have to make arrangement of more vehicles from October
6 after the increasing pressure of passengers.
He further said they will also send
passengers going home for Dashain to their respective places through other
alternatives.The Federation said it is going to add around 1,000 more vehicles
of long-routes for Dashain. RSS
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