India and Nepal launched the first ever bus service between the two countries on Tuesday afternoon. The country’s second international bus service, between the Capital and Nepal’s Kathmandu located a little over 1,200 kilometres away, was flagged off from Dr. Ambedkar Stadium Terminal here on Tuesday. A similar facility between New Delhi and Lahore is already available. To begin with daily buses will ply between Delhi and Kathmandu. Later, there will be similar buses which will ply on two other routes - Delhi-Pokhara and Varanasi- Kathmandu.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepalese counterpart Sushil Koirala flagged off the Kathmandu-Delhi bus service called Pashupatinath Express from Kathmandu, road transport minister Nitin Gadkari and tourism minister Mahesh Sharma launched the first bus from Delhi.