India-Nepal friendship bus service resumed
BY M Post Bureau5 Jan 2016 11:17 PM GMT
M Post Bureau5 Jan 2016 11:17 PM GMT
In the midst of uneasiness in India-Nepal relations, a friendship bus service between the two countries was restarted on Monday after a gap of 27 years, much to the delight of people on either side of the border who have family and trade ties with each other.
The bus, which runs between Kanchanpur in Nepal close to Banbasa border in Champavat district of Uttarakhand and Delhi, was regularised from Monday after a trial for a week, said B M Upreti, In-charge of Sharda barrage international police station.
The service had been suspended 27 years back in the wake of the Indo-Nepal Trade and Transit Treaty, he said.
Resumption of the service between the two countries after its prolonged suspension has been welcomed by locals on either side of the border as about eight to ten thousand Nepalis travel in these buses on a daily basis from Kanchanpur district, Dandel Dhura, Voti, Sapen, Acham, Kalali, Jagbuddha and Siddhartha Nagar areas in Nepal, he said.
The resumption of the bus service marks a positive step amidst the uneasiness in India-Nepal ties since the adoption of new Constitution by Nepal.
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