Preparations on to blacktop Jamune-Pokhara road section

DAMAULI, DECEMBER 29: The west section of the Mugling-Pokhara Road Expansion Project is going to be blacktopped from the first week of February 2024. Currently, the workers there are working to fix the base along the Jamune-Pokhara road section to commence the blacktop starting next month, Project Engineer Narayan Prasad Poudel said.

He added that the base work of around 2 kilometres has been completed. So far, the achievement of the Jamune-Pokhara road section is just 14 per cent. According to Poudel, 60 Nepali and 50 Chinese engineers and more than 400 other workers are deployed in the section to expedite the construction works. The width of the road at Dulegaunda bazaar and main market areas will be 46 metres while it will be 18 metres from the Jamune to Kumlekhola section and 23 metres wide in the rest of the other sections.

Works have been pursued by dividing the stretch of the highway from Pokhara to Mugling into two sections to complete the road expansion works at the earliest. The western section stretches 39 kilometres from the Seti River bridge at Prithvi Chowk in Pokhara to Jamune of Tanahun. The Mugling-Pokhara Road Project with its office in Pokhara looks after this section while the Project’s office set up at Gunadi looks after the 43 kilometres eastern section from Jamune to Aanbukhaireni.

A contract has been signed with the Chinese company, Anhui Kaiyuan Highway and Bridge Co Ltd, China for the construction of the western sector. The project cost is Rs 7 billion 404 million and 600 thousand. The project deadline is 16 August 2024, which is 42 months since the signing of the contract. The two-lane road from Pokhara to Mugling is to be expanded into a four-lane road with the concessional loan assistance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

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