July 13: The Besisahar-Chame road – the only road linking the hill district of Lamjung and the mountainous district of Manang – is to remain closed for two days starting from today (July 13).    
The Besisahar-Chame road project office shared that the road will remain closed from 10.00 am this morning (Thursday) till 5.00 pm Friday for the construction of two wooden bridges over the Timang power house rivulet and Syarku rivulet.    
Engineer at the project office, Suman Adhikari said that two wooden bridges, one in Chame Rural Municipality-1 over the Timang power house rivulet and another in ward-2 over the Syarku rivulet, are being constructed.    
He further shared that vehicular movement has been brought to a grinding halt along the road stretch for the purpose.    
"Wooden bridges were constructed in the areas two years ago. Now, the materials used in the bridges are deteriorating so there is a plan to replace the wrought out materials with new ones. It has become an urgent need to avoid any accidents on the bridge through which loaded vehicles also pass through," he further said.    
The wooden bridge to be constructed over the Timang rivulet will be nine meters long and four-and-a-half meters wide.    
Another wooden bridge to be constructed over the Syarku rivulet will be seven meters in length and four meters in breadth. -- RSS