ABOUT NEPALI BUS

Nepal Transport Service was the first, and for a time, the largest, Nepalese public bus line.[1] The company was based in the capital Kathmandu and operated from 1959 to 1966. Its head office was located at 122 Asan Tyouda Tol, Kathmandu.[2]

The company was founded by proprietor Karuna Ratna Tuladhar (1920–2008) and Lupau Ratna Tuladhar (1918–1993) of Kathmandu.[3] The brothers were former merchants who operated an ancestral business house in Lhasa that conducted trade between Tibet, India and Nepal.[4][5]

Nepal Transport Service started as a trucking company in March 1959 hauling cargo between Kathmandu and the railhead of Amlekhganj near the Indian border, 190 kilometers to the south over Tribhuvan Highway.[6] It is the country's first highway which opened to jeep traffic in 1956, and was subsequently improved to handle larger vehicles.
Nepal Transport Service went out of business in 1966, no longer able to sustain the losses resulting from frequent downtime. Breakdowns were common due to bad road conditions. Major maintenance had to be done in India, and unavailability of spare parts locally for its diverse fleet meant its buses were out of commission for extended periods.^[13]
During the company's final years, it fought an unsuccessful court battle over increasing income tax despite falling revenues as more and more of its aging buses went out of service.