Citizens should be given accessible, safe transportation services: Deuba

Patan (Lalitpur): Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that the citizens should be provided with accessible, safe and reliable transportation services.

At a programme organised by the Nepal Democratic Transport Entrepreneurs Organisation at the NC Central Office on Sunday, President Deuba said the transport business fraternities have the common responsibility to provide reliable transportation services along with safeguarding their business interests.

Deuba was of the view that the transport businesspeople have a crucial role in reducing road accidents and ensuring road safety. ‘Running vehicles in different parts of the country is a challenging job due to tough geographic conditions. Protecting the lives of common people and ensuring road safety has been a serious challenge due to the road accidents taking place almost every day in recent times. Nepali Congress has taken such challenges seriously,’ Deuba stated.

Likewise, Deuba said that the businesspeople affiliated with the Nepal Democratic Transport Entrepreneurs Organisation should have concerted efforts and collaboration to resolve the issues in this field and added that the Nepali Congress will always back the entrepreneurs for their welfare.

Also speaking at the same programme, NC general secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa said that the party’s departments should advocate to resolve the issues of the concerned fields. ‘Public transportation is a crucial aspect of democracy. Democracy will be robust if the public transportation sector is effective, secure and robust,’ Thapa said.

Thapa viewed that Nepal’s public transportation sector should be managed by encouraging public partnership, adding that public partnership was a successful model in the transportation sector. He argued that the public transportation sector should be service-oriented, technology-driven and well-managed instead of a profit-making business.

NC leader Gopalman Shrestha, Shiva Prasad Humagain, Sabuj Krishna Baniya, Jitendra Kumar Shrestha and others too expressed their views at the event.

On the occasion, speakers said that the public transportation sector in the country has billions of investment and this should be promoted while safeguarding the interests of investors and service recipients alike.

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