Kathmandu, June 30 -- Taxi drivers demonstrated outside the Department of Transport Management Office, Minbhawan demanding that the government allow them to return to work.

The protests come as traffic police continue to impound hundreds of cabs everyday for flouting the government's Covid-19 lockdown rules that ban all forms of public transport.

"It's been over three months, we haven't earned a single penny, but we have a family to feed and loans to repay," said Birendra Bista, 38, one of the taxi drivers at Tuesday's protest.

Ever since the government eased the lockdown rules from the second week of June allowing shops to reopen and private vehicles to get on the road under the odd-even scheme, taxi drivers have been raising their vo...