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14 Kms of Bagmati Corridor Road Completed

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June 29: The High Powered Committee for Integrated Development of the Bagmati Civilisation has spent 56.68 percent amount of the allocated budget till mid-June. Out of Rs 100.44 billion allocated to Bagmati Area Physical Infrastructure Development Project under the committee, Rs 56.94 billion has been spent to construct infrastructures including roads, drainage and river embankments.  

About 13.73 kilometres of another keenly-watched project under the committee, the Bagmati Corridor Road, has been completed so far. This project has been given special focus since a long time as it is considered vital in easing traffic congestion in Kathmandu and Lalitpur. The total length of the corridor is 17.61 kms.

The Bagmati Corridor Road stretches from Gokarneshwar Temple to Balkhu en route Tilganga, Sinamangal, Minbhavan, Shankhamul and Thapathali.

"Only 3.88 kms of the corridor road is yet to be constructed," says Jyoti Kumar Shrestha, director of the project.  He said that there is no separate project as such for Bagmati corridor but the roads are being constructed under the Bagmati Area Physical Infrastructure Development Project.

“We have divided the corridor into various sections and the construction is underway in most of the places,” he said.

 

Out of 1,750 metres of the road section from Gokarneshwar to Guheswari, 1,250 metres has been completed. Similarly, the Tilganga-Sinamangal road section of the corridor has been completed as per the target. According to the project, 3,419 kilometres of the road which falls in the area has been completed. Also, 1,391 metres of Sinamangal-Minbhavan road section has also been completed.

However, the construction of Minbhawan-Shankhamul road section of the corridor almost ready. The road section is 6,600 metres long while construction of 6,570 metres has already finished. 1100 metres of Shankamul-Thapathali road section has been completed as per the target.  Meanwhile, only 150 metres of Thapathali-Balkhu road section has been completed so far.

The agreement for construction of 2,500 metres Balkhu-Sundarighat road section was signed in 2013. However, no progress had been made in this section at all. The project has a target to complete 2,500 meters of the Bishnumati confluence-Shobha Bhagwati road section. The agreement for this road section was signed in 2014. 

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