India, Oct. 9 -- LUCKNOW The Centre has categorically clarified that only Form C permits issued by the Embassy or Consulate of the destination country, in this case Nepal, are valid for cross-border passenger transport between India and Nepal.

The clarification from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) comes in the wake of a major investigation launched by the UP transport department into the use of forged permits by certain private bus operators at the Indo-Nepal border and the transport commissioner Brajesh Narain Singh having alerted the Centre through a letter in July.

In a circular issued on October 3 to the principal secretaries and transport commissioners of UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim, the minis...