Kathmandu. With the implementation of the automatic price system for petroleum products, the price of public transport has also decreased. Along with reducing the price of diesel and petrol through the automatic system, the Transport Management Department has also adjusted the fare.
According to the automatic system, per liter, diesel was reduced by Rs.4 and petrol by Rs.6. Director General Narayan Prasad Bhattarai says that based on this, the transport management department has reduced the fares by 2.13 percent in interprovincial passenger vehicles, 2.78 percent in the hills and 3.09 percent in the Terai.
“The reduced fare will be implemented from today, its monitoring has been entrusted to the Transport Management Office and the Traffic Police,” Physical Infrastructure and Transport Minister Prakash Jwala said, “There is a scientific procedure to maintain the new fare if there is a more than 5 percent decrease in petroleum products.” There, the rent has been adjusted based on the procedure.
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