Kathmandu. The Kathmandu District Administration Office (DAO) has implemented a new time table for the operation of passenger vehicles on the Kathmandu-Pharping-Kulekhani-Hetauda road section during the night.

Chief District Officer of Kathmandu, Ishwor Raj Poudel, said the public vehicles heading to Hetauda via Balkhu and Dakshinkali from Kathmandu have to reach the police check post Pharping by 8:00 pm.

Passenger and public vehicles plying on the said route will be allowed to leave Balkhu only after 5 am. According to a notice issued by the District Administration Office today, passenger vehicles will be operated only after a thorough examination of the technical condition of the public vehicles.

A meeting of the District Security Committee held on Friday decided to make it mandatory for the police unit to strictly check all the vehicles carrying passengers and hired passengers on the route of Kathmandu district, CDO Poudel said.

At least 14 people including six members of a family were killed when a microbus (Madhes Province 03-001 Ja 0880) en route to Sarlahi from Kathmandu met with an accident at Chisapanigadhi of Bhimphedi Rural Municipality-6 in Makwanpur district on Thursday morning. Six people were injured in the accident.