Lumbini. The electric vehicles operated by the Lumbini Development Fund with the aim of serving tourists have recently fallen into disuse. The Fund had brought 19 electric vehicles through the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation from the Clean Energy Fund under the Asian Development Bank’s South Asia Tourism Infrastructure Development Project to promote tourism in the Lumbini region.
##The 14 vans and five electric buses brought to Lumbini are air-conditioned, disabled-friendly and have automatic doors. Each bus has 19 seats and the van has a capacity of five seats. It is said that the bus/van, which can travel 400 km after being fully charged, has the facility to pay by card.
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## On Baisakh 13, an electric van with the number Lu1Jha 696 lost control on a road within the Lumbini rural area and even had an accident. The court has issued a one-month mandate to convert the white number plates to green and operate them as per the donor’s intention, said Lumbini Save Maha Abhiyan coordinator Akramuddin Khan.
He said, “The said deadline has also passed, the situation is as it is.” “Due to legal ambiguity, we were not able to use the white plate vehicles for the intended purpose. The process has been taken forward after the court order,” said Siddhicharan Bhattarai, treasurer of the Lumbini Development Fund, “Now green plates will be made and used for the intended purpose.”
##He said that some vehicles were damaged while the fund was running for internal purposes due to the fear of jamming, damage and battery discharge when kept in the same place under the open sky for a long time and that such a thing would not happen in the future.
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