Prakash Sapkota’s candidacy for the chairmanship of the Nepal Tourist Transport Association

Kathmandu, sep 4: The panel led by Prakash Sapkota has been announced for the new leadership of Pal Tourist Transport Business Association. The group has also registered their candidacy at the election committee office on Sunday. The 20th general assembly and convention of the association is being held in Kathmandu on the 22nd of Bhadra. Bharat Prasad Timalsina is the senior vice president of Sapkota Group, Anjan Maharjan is the vice president, Anil Moktan is the general secretary, Pramod Prasad Aryal is the secretary, Ram Kumar Basnet is the treasurer and Bajiram Ghimire, Indra Bahadur Pathak and Sudin Mahat are the members.

Sapkota’s group has been supported by the association’s founders, former presidents and the current working committee president and vice president. Prakash Sapkota, the presidential candidate, while talking to Dainiki after filing his nominations, said that he has formed a panel to work for the greater good of the businessmen and entered the election field. The presidential candidate Sapkota said that there is not a single bus park for tourist buses in the federal capital so far and he said that he would be the first to do so. He said that there is a problem of parking in various tourist areas from Buddh to Hanumandhoka Durbar area and promised that his leadership team will work to find a long-term solution to it. Sapkota said that the police are treating vehicles carrying tourists with green plates differently and will coordinate and work to bring about a change.

He mentioned that the government is trying to implement the decision to remove 20-year-old vehicles in Hachuwa, and said that they will take steps to manage it in a scientific manner by making certain standards in favor of the businessmen. Sapkota said that a special subsidy should be given to businessmen for the purchase of electric vehicles to carry tourists and he said that he would take concrete steps for that. The presidential candidate Sapkota said that there is an attempt to erase the identity of the vehicle with the green plate on the embossed number plate and said that he is ready to take any risk to maintain the identity.

Sapkota has also announced that he will expand the organization to all seven provinces within a year to organize the tourist transport businessmen who are scattered in different parts of the country when his group is elected. He said that the process of payment of insurance claims is weak and it is difficult for the victims to get it, and he said that by improving the weakness, he will take the initiative to arrange the system so that the insurance claim payment will be done by the union itself. Although the largest investment in tourism after hotels is in tourist transportation, it seems that the stakeholders of the government seem to be ignoring it. In the tourism sector, cash is still mostly dealt with in advance payments, that is, tourists’ visits are not borrowed, but in some cases, transporters have to wait for six months for payment.