Kathmandu, Oct 9: Advance bus ticket booking for people travelling home for Dashain opened today, with passengers lining up at ticket counters at the New Bus Park from Thursday night.
Hoping to secure tickets early, many passengers, particularly young people, began queuing outside ticket counters overnight.
A meeting among the Department of Transport Management, Nepal Police, transport operators and transport workers on Tuesday, Oct 6, decided to open advance ticket booking for Dashain from Oct 9.
Passengers travelling to several districts began lining up on Thursday night. Pankaj Malla, general manager of Lhotse Multipurpose Pvt Ltd, which operates the New Bus Park, said passengers heading to districts in Sudurpaschim Province had started queuing outside ticket counters from 9 pm Thursday.
Lhotse Multipurpose said it has added 15 ticket counters in the New Bus Park area to handle the Dashain rush. The company said necessary security arrangements have also been put in place.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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