Two buses from Bangladesh have been piloted for the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. The buses of Shyamoli NR Paribahan leave from BRTC International Bus Terminal at Kamalapur on Monday morning. This experimental journey aimed at direct road communication with Nepal.
Road Transport and Highway Division sources said, 44 representatives of the BRTC led by the chairman are going to Kathmandu. Among them there are 25 ministers from different ministries and agencies, 11 from India, six Nepalese Nepalese and two of the Asian Development Bank.
The delegation will spend the night in Rangpur on Monday and there will be Siliguri. Then Tuesday night’s closure near Nepal’s KankarVita The team will reach Kathmandu on 26th. There is a meeting of the Trinamangi delegation in Kathmandu on April 27.
Distance from Dhaka to Kathmandu is 1,100 kilometers. It will be a long way to experience the journey, the routine will discuss the possibility of regular bus service and the assessment of rents, among other things.
An agreement was reached in Thimphu in 2015 for buses in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal. It is uncertain when the Bhutan withdrew from the deal. Later, instead of Bhutan, steps were taken to start passenger buses among the remaining three countries. It will be the signing of the Transport Protocol on April 27 in Kathmandu. But due to the lack of preparation of all the countries it is unlikely to be possible.
