Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:
(a) whether the Government has resumed a bus service between India and Nepal via Champawat in Uttarakhand after a gap of 27 years under the “friendship bus service”: and
(b) if so, the details thereof?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
[GEN. (DR) V. K. SINGH (RETD)]
(a) & (b) The UPSRTC (Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation) and Mahakali Yatayat Samiti, Mahendranagar (Nepal) have started a bus service on the Delhi-Mahendranagar route via Tanakpur (Champawat, Uttarakhand) on 25 December 2015.