4 years ago
Kathmandu, May 22: Travelling by public vehicles is nearly an ordeal for Govinda Acharya, a blind professor who teaches at the capital's Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus.
He has the bitter experience that the buses refuse to take him in even when he is ready to pay the fare. Because of this, he is late to classes or sometimes misses them.
"Public buses do not stop when I stop them seeing me blind. I have to wait for a 'kind-hearted' driver for long who would take me in. So, I am often late to the college," he shared. Acharya has to travel in public transport daily to college from Kirtipur where he stays.
Not only this, Acharya said he has hard time while crossing the road. "Sometimes, vehicles would come whizzing when I am crossing the road, producing goose bumps," says he.
Acharya......