The large migrant population of Nepalese origin residing in the State Capital has hailed the State transport corporation’s decision to start a direct bus service from Dehradun to Nepal.
The State transport corporation has planned to start a direct bus service to Mahendragarh in Nepal. The Managing Director (MD) of state transport corporation, Brijesh Kumar Sant told The Pioneer that a proposal for the new service is sent to the state government and hoped that the service could start from next month.
The corporation has sent a proposal to the government which in turn would hold deliberation with the Nepalese government. The Deputy General Manager (DGM) Operations Uttarakhand roadways, Deepak Jain told The Pioneer that the bus would take the route of Kashipur, Rudrapur and Banbasa for reaching Mahendra Nagar from Dehradun. The transport corporation is planning to ply a 52 seat bus on the route in which a set of two drivers and conductors would be engaged.
He however clarified that as off now there is no plan to extend the service to Kathmandu the capital city of Nepal as the small border town is located more than 600 kms from Kathmandu.
Though the bus service is expected to start from next month, the Nepalese working here are already existed. Bam Bahadur, a resident of Pokhra city located in Central Nepal and working in a construction company said that the need for bus service was felt for long as Uttarakhand shares long border with Nepal. He said that the proposed bus service would save both the time and money of Nepalese working in Uttarakhand.