KATHMANDU, July 22 -- Transport entrepreneurs on Thursday staged a protest in the Kathmandu Valley, demanding the province and local governments enforce the new fares in line with the revised transport fares by the federal government last week.

Due to the protest, vehicular movement on the ring road in the Valley has been disrupted. According to transport entrepreneurs, they had to come to protest after the sub-national governments expressed their apathy to revise the rate on time.

The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) hiked the public transport fares by 28 percent effective from July 14. "However, as many transport services are under the jurisdiction of either provincial or the local governments, the new fares have not been ful...