Silly Decision

District Administration Office, Kathmandu on Monday issued a notice in the name of the annulled Transport Committees to submit the details of their office expenditures such as salary of staff, electricity, water and cost of treatment for the injured in the accidents by the vehicles of their members as well as other liabilities so as to allow them to take the part of the money collected in their ‘blocked’ bank accounts. 

This is just another nonsense decision from the government. The intentions of the government couldn’t be said right because the transport syndicate was ended as they blocked the fair competition in the transportation sector, provided sub-standard service and cheated the passengers. 

What could be the motive behind allowing the terminated ‘transport committees’ to provide money? It could establish a precedent that the committees that promoted syndicate in the country and exploited the consumers were right therefore the government was compensating them with the money which it had seized from them. 

This decision will provide the transport committees to create an exhausted list of expenditures and liabilities and run away with the money in the seized bank accounts. Instead of issuing such controversial notice, the government should have unveiled the stepwise plan to provide better and reliable transport services for both people and goods in the country. 

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 25 July 2018.