Transport entrepreneurs have announced an indefinite transport strike across the country starting today.

Transport operators decided to halt public transport services across the country from today at the call of  Public Transport Protection Struggle Committee.

As a result, normal life across the country including Kathmandu Valley has been affected since this morning.

Police have been mobilised after the transport operators blocked the road at Koteshwor-Jadibuti area.

Transport entrepreneurs enforced vehicular strike demanding that the new regulations on ride-hailing and self-driving rentals introduced by the Gandaki Province Government be repealed.

Saying that the government’s decision will weaken the public transport services, Yogendra Bahadur KC, Secretary at the National Federation of Nepal Transport Entrepreneurs urged the government to roll back its decision at the earliest.

Meanwhile, the Joint People's Movement Committee, which has been protesting demanding the restoration of the monarchy and the Hindu state, has withdrawn its Kathmandu Valley bandh program.