Transport entrepreneurs and drivers on Thursday staged a protest in the Capital putting forth nine-point demand.

The taxi drivers have staged the protest in front of the New Baneshwor-based Transport Management Department at the call of the Majdoor Driver Independent Struggle Committee.

The have demanded that Indian vehicles operating in Nepali territory be banned, the work of snatching keys and abusing drivers be stopped by managing taxi stands in the Kathmandu Valley, embossed number written in English be replaced with Nepali and international policy be implemented by maintaining the same taxi fare across the country among others.

Similarly, they have also demanded that the government bear all the treatment costs of the people injured in the accident from third party insurance and provide Rs 2.5 million to the families of those who died in the road mishap.

They have also demanded that the vehicles with white, yellow, green, blue, red and black number plates be treated equally.