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Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari yesterday flagged off the Delhi-Kathmandu bus service here and said the government was planning to start similar services to every neighbouring country soon. |
“This initiative by the central government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to extend good relations between India and Nepal, which has existed since its independence,” Gadkari told reporters while flagging off the bus from the Ambedkar Stadium bus terminal here.
This was the second international bus service by the Delhi Transport Corp (DTC) after its Delhi-Lahore service was launched in 1999.
The bus will run between Delhi and Kathmandu daily and cover the distance of 1,250km in around 30 hours.
The bus will travel via the Yamuna expressway to Agra, Firozabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Gorakhpur and Sunauli and thereafter will enter Nepalese territory to reach Kathmandu.
Gadkari said the bus service is part of Modi’s agenda to strengthen ties with neighbouring countries, which was very important for every nation to do.
Emphasising that Modi wants to build good ties with every nation, he said: “I am glad that the Delhi-Kathmandu bus service is also starting from the same place from where in 1999, the Delhi-Lahore bus service was started to build good ties with Pakistan.”