Minister directs to complete Nakkhu-Bhainsepati-Bungmati road by mid-April

Kathmandu : Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Renu Kumari Yadav, has instructed the officials for the completion of the under-construction Nakhhu-Bhainsepati-Bungmati road project in Lalitpur by this mid-April.

During her field inspection to the project today, the Minister said she saw no issues to complete the project within the above mentioned time. She went on to say that project progress failed to report a progress in the past five-six years as the widening works remained halted due to some hurdles.

The project faced obstructions as physical structures could not be removed from some locations and now there remains no such condition.” As the Minister claimed, she was working to create an atmosphere to accelerate the project once she assumed the office.

Until sometime ago, there were physical infrastructure like houses and boundary walls along the project site and now they have been removed and the sewage system has been managed, she said.

According to the Minister, she hopes the project will complete in two months as just works to blacktop the road are awaited. “The contractor companies have been directed to finish the project by coming mid-April.”

She took time to say that a team from the Ministry is busy to monitor under-construction road projects for some months, adding that the respective Province and local governments were too responsible for the monitoring of under-construction road projects and finding out if any issue is hampering the progress.

On the occasion, the Minister was accompanied by Ministry Secretary Rabindra Nath Shrestha, Director General of Department of Roads, Shivahari Sapkota including others. The five-kilometer road project was launched some five years ago. According to the Kathmandu Valley Road Improvement Project, the project reports the 70 percent progress.