Old motor vehicles not to be seen on Gandaki roads from tomorrow

Pokhara, March 14 : Over 1,600 old motor vehicles are being send off the roads in Gandaki zone as per the government policy to put a ban on the twenty-year-old vehicles. According to data of the Gandaki Transport Management Office, hand tractors (495), taxis (433), trucks (234), large buses(283), minibuses (6), mini trucks (27), tractors (7), jeeps (87), pickup vans ( 7), van ( 6), tourist buses (8), tourist mini buses ( 3), tourist jeeps ( 5), tourist micro buses ( five) , tourist vans (three), and tourist cars (35) registered in the office will have to go off the roads from tomorrow.
Office Chief Achyut Regmi said the Office was committed to implementing the government policy to discourage old motor vehicles and such vehicles would not be allowed to ply on the roads from March 14.