Get help calling 103

The Himalayan Times

7 September 2017

Get help calling 103

It was encouraging to know that traffic police in Kathmandu have started going after cabbies who cheat or overcharge passengers for one reason or another. It’s not uncommon to hear from friends and relatives that they were cheated or overcharged by metered cabbies while travelling from here to there and so on. So, I am not the exception. People who are really in need are compelled to use them. Otherwise, most of the common people these days in Kathmandu have started using public transportation, which is easily available.

So far, Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) had taken actions against 100 cabbies in the past three days. This should have been even earlier “More than 100 cabbies booked in three days” (THT, Sept. 6, Page 2). It said that assorted teams have been deployed in busy areas to monitor taxis for violating traffic rules like operating without the mandatory seal in fare-meter, tampering with and using defunct fare-meter and overcharging passengers. MTPD has also started charging fines of Rs. 5,000 with tampering fare-meter taxis, Rs. 1,500 for overcharging passengers. Around 6,000 taxis are plying within the Kathmandu valley.

People have to be aware of MTPD’s praiseworthy effort to punish taxis which are overcharging and cheating passengers. The public should cooperate with MTPD by using its telephone number “103” as and when needed to punish the unruly taxis. Otherwise, we will continue to be overcharged or cheated by most taxi drivers. It was good to know that traffic police have been keeping a close watch on taxis in the daytime and at night when they try to fleece passengers taking advantage of their emergencies and non availability of public transportation. Time has also come for the commuters to be responsible for taking necessary steps to punish overcharging taxi drivers by cooperating with traffic police using the phone number “103”.

Rai Biren Bangdel

Maharjgunj

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