Bring Them To Book

Public call office and photocopy center turned contact office of public and private airlines in Birtamod, Jhapa has been charging Rs. 50 from each person whoever goes there for confirming his open ticket. After dialing to the Necon Air’s Bhadrapur airport office on Friday morning Binod (the owner of the contact office) confirmed my open air ticket for that day’s only flight to Kathmandu, which I myself could have done, he turned to me and said that the service charge was fifty rupees. He did not even hesitate to say that nobody would dare to take any action to him if I complained to the police or any special police department patrolling for revenue leakage and corruption. "I am a local and that’s enough," that’s what he said exactly. Service oriented contact offices of the public and private airliners may be busy doing such malicious business elsewhere in the country also. If the concerned authorities do not check and bring such wrong doers to the book in time the Nepalese and foreign air travelers will continue to be cheated ion a broad daylight.

Himal Aryal
Naya Baneshwor, Kathmandu