October 24, 2023 16:00 pm
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) is grappling with a mounting backlog of unprinted driver's licenses, which has surpassed 1.2 million, as the printing process remains halted.
October 11, 2023 11:30 am
KATHMANDU, Oct 11: To enhance convenience for travelers during the upcoming Dashain festival, the Department of Transport Management (DoTM) has made the decision to open route permits for applications across Nepal from October 13 to October 28. This move aims to expedite travel during the festive season, allowing passengers to reach their destinations more efficiently.
January 31, 2023 13:30 pm
KATHMANDU, Jan 31: The Kathmandu Valley Traffic Police Office has sent the driving licenses of 259 drivers who violated traffic rules more than five times to the Department of Transport Management for suspension.
December 25, 2022 16:00 pm
KATHMANDU, Dec 25: Embossed number plates, which are considered important for vehicle safety, have been installed only on 35,000 vehicles in six years.
December 17, 2022 13:15 pm
KATHMANDU, Dec 17: Kathmandu Valley Traffic Police Office (KVTPO) has sent 60 driving licenses to the Department of Transport Management (DoTM) recommending their suspension from November 17 to December 15.
October 16, 2022 15:30 pm
KATHMANDU, OCT 16: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM), in a bid to distribute 1.2 million smart license cards, has called for bidding from the interested firms.
June 7, 2022 18:00 pm
KATHMANDU, The government has withdrawn its decision to make the installation of embossed number plates on all old and new vehicles within mid-July after widespread criticism. However, the government has decided to make it mandatory for all vehicles registered after November 17, 2021 to get embossed number plates.
June 6, 2022 18:00 pm
KATHMANDU, June 6: The Department of Transport Management has issued a notice to affix embossed number plates to all vehicles of Bagmati Province within the next one and a half months. According to reports, the number of vehicles registered in the province until mid-November of 2021 alone is more than 1.7 million.
January 28, 2022 16:00 pm
KATHMANDU, Jan 28: Minister for Labor, Employment and Transport Ghanshyam Dahal of Bagmati Province has directed the officials to digitize the written files in the department of transport management.
January 10, 2022 17:32 pm
KATHMANDU, Jan 10: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) has made the embossed number plate system mandatory for all vehicles applying for the renewal of their registrations from January 15.
December 11, 2020 14:10 pm
KATHMANDU, Dec 11: The Transport Management Office at Ekantakuna is yet to distribute some 70,000 driving licenses. The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) has stated that it has sent all the smart driving license cards to the offices concerned for distribution after it cleared its backlog during the COVID-19 pandemic.
September 12, 2020 20:00 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 12: The Department of Transport Management has decided to resume renewal of driving licenses.
July 5, 2020 18:28 pm
KATHMANDU, July 5: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) has yet again called on vehicle owners to get embossed number plates for their vehicles. The distribution of embossed number plates drew a number of controversies in the past.
March 12, 2020 07:56 am
KATHMANDU, March 12: Bowing to protest by the Nepal Meter Taxi Entrepreneurs Association (NMTEA), the Department of Transport Management issued an official notice on Wednesday banning the use of private vehicles by paying passengers.
February 28, 2020 15:26 pm
KATHMANDU, Feb 28: More than 240,000 smart driving licenses have been printed so far as part of the government's drive to issue around 800,000 licenses for the time being.
February 13, 2020 10:19 am
Acquiring driving license after passing the driving test should be predictable. But vast majority of applicants here have to wait for months on end to get them even though they have completed all the required processes.
February 12, 2020 10:02 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Though the Department of Transport Management (DoTM) said on December 16 that the backlog of applications for smart driving license will be cleared in 'four-five months', more than 600,000 people are still to get driving license.
January 11, 2020 09:46 am
KATHMANDU, Dec 11: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) had started operation of mass printer nearly a month ago and during that time the backlog of smart driving license was 600,000 to 700,000 and now after a month of operation of mass printer the backlog still remains the same.
December 16, 2019 09:28 am
KATHMANDU, Dec 16: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) has claimed that the smart driving licenses backlog will be cleared within four or five months.
November 28, 2019 08:58 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 28: Nepal Meter Taxi Entrepreneur’s Association (NMTEA), an umbrella organization of registered taxi operators, has warned of strike after the government allowed operation of ride-sharing services and also announced that it would bring ride-sharing services under the ambit of the law.
November 21, 2019 08:09 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 21: The government has banned the use of private vehicles for public transport, apparently with a view to restrict various popular ride-hailing services currently in operation in Kathmandu Valley.
November 7, 2019 07:13 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: It’s been a ritual for Manoj Waiba to visit the Department of Transport Management (DoTM) branch since he filed an application for renewal of his driving license two years ago. Every time he visits the DoTM’s Sukedhara branch, he is given bundles of cards and is asked to search through hundreds of cards to find his card.
October 22, 2019 12:19 pm
KATHMANDU, Oct 22: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) is yet to operate the mass printer for printing smart license cards, which it had brought from India in August. The delay in using the mass printer has led to increasing backlogs of smart license cards.
July 25, 2019 14:30 pm
KATHMANDU, July 25: The 'mass printer' which the government had ordered have not been dispatched yet.
June 7, 2019 16:14 pm
KATHMANDU, June 7: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) has recently issued a 15-day ultimatum to all the electric scooter owners in the Kathmandu Valley to get their vehicles registered at the department.
March 5, 2019 17:00 pm
KATHMANDU, March 5: Even though the government started checking pollution condition of the vehicles since mid-August last year, the pollution created by vehicle emissions has gone unabated.
November 24, 2018 18:40 pm
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November 1, 2018 07:24 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 1: Although the Department of Transport Management (DOTM) announced last week that printing of 600,000 smart driving licenses would be completed within 45 days, the actual printing work of the licenses has yet to begin due to some technical snags.
October 10, 2018 09:38 am
KATHMANDU, Oct 10: The Department of Transport Management has opened route permit for public vehicles from today.
September 22, 2018 08:32 am
KATHMANDU, Sept 22: With the country’s biggest festival Dashain nearing, people are in dilemma about planning their visit to their home-towns as bus ticket bookings have not opened yet.
September 18, 2018 07:48 am
KATHMANDU, Sept 18: With the Dashain festival nearing, bus entrepreneurs have decided to open bookings from Thursday. Transport entrepreneurs agreed to do so after the Department of Transport Management (DoTM) agreed to address their demands of revising transport fares and unfreezing their bank accounts.