Lack Of Civic Sense

The country witnessed 16-23 June as the TRAFFIC WEEK. Most of the Nepalese have fresh memory that throughout the week the traffic police and students helped and taught the pedestrians cross the road in a proper way, among others. For the people to cross the roads there is the zebra cross. Unluckily, almost all signs of zebra cross are often unseen. The situation is still the same. No zebra crosses are properly managed on any of the roads and accidents are likely. Meanwhile, it is partly the pedestrians who are to be blamed as well. People no longer follow traffic rules, nor do they use the zebra cross while crossing roads. They cross the roads wherever it is convenient for them. As a result, the cases of accident are on the rise. It is not known when we are going to develop civic sense.

- Amrit Shrestha
Kathmandu

July 3, 1977
R. 357.9 Million Budgetary Deficit Recorded

By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, July 2: There was a deficit of 357.9 million rupees in the government budgetary operations during the first ten months of the current financial year. This was substantially higher than the deficit of 162.8 million rupees during the same period last year.