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Railway Company to Announce the Date of Service Operation Soon

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Railway Company to Announce the Date of Service Operation Soon
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March 25: A legal gateway has been opened for the operation of railway service after the Railway Ordinance -2078 was published in the Nepal Gazette. The train purchased by Nepal for almost Rs 1 billion has not been able to operate yet due to lack of laws. But now, with the ordinance issued, Nepal Railway Company Limited will set a date for operating the trains soon. The two sets of trains purchased 19 months ago for the operation of the Janakpur-Jayanagar railway service are running without passengers.

After President Bidya Devi Bhandari issued the Railway Ordinance-2078 on Tuesday, the Department of Printing published this ordinance in the Nepal Gazette on Wednesday.

Niranjan Jha, general manager of the company, claimed that the legal gateway has been opened with the ordinance and the train with passengers will start running soon. Jha added that the ordinance is expected to be passed by the parliament within 60 days.

“Now, we have started preparation to run the trains,” said Jha adding, “We will announce the date for formal inauguration of the train within 2/3 days. Now that all the preparations have been made and there are no financial and legal problems, there is no obstacle in operating the train”.

There were complications in operating the train earlier due to lack of legal provisions in case of accidents, human losses, in addition to the issue of passenger fares and freight charges.

The government had issued an ordinance to run the train twice before. But legal hurdles could not be removed since those ordinances were not endorsed by the parliament.

Jha informed that the company currently has 58 employees. It has been agreed to bring 26 technicians from India to run the trains. Fourteen of them have already arrived while 12 technicians are on their way to Nepal.

 

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