Kathmandu, March 3 -- The civil aviation ministry has revived the stalled process of enacting separate air carriers' liability and insurance legislation for domestic carriers, years after adopting the Montreal Convention 1999 that makes international airlines liable in case of death or injury to passengers.

Nepal adopted the Montreal Convention of 1999 on December 15, 2018.

The draft of the air carriers' liability and insurance bill from domestic carriers, which proposes a five-fold increase in compensation for death or injury, has been in the making since Nepal ratified the Montreal Convention.

The draft bill was extensively discussed with the stakeholders before finalising it in 2020.

However, successive tourism ministers failed to ...