Follow Gandaki’s lead

If Gandaki province can enforce its ride-sharing guidelines, so can Bagmati.

The growing popularity of ride-sharing services such as Pathao, inDrive, Tootle and Yango has warranted their formalisation and regulation. Realising this, Gandaki Province has officially enforced its ride-sharing regulation—the ‘Gandaki Province Ride-Sharing (Regulation and Management) 2025’. This has ended uncertainty about the regulation’s implementation following widespread demonstrations by public transport operators against it in June last year. With this, Gandaki has become the first province to bring ride-sharing services under law, opening the door for similar actions in other provinces, most important, Bagmati, where ride-sharing services operated for the first time but remain unregulated due to bureaucratic hurdles, frequent government changes and provincial inaction.