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East-West Highway to be Upgraded into 8 Lanes

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August 21: The upgradation work of the East-West (Mahendra) Highway will start in the current fiscal year. The Ministry of Physical Planning and Transport informed that the process of upgrading the highway into eight lanes will start after five months from mid-January. It is the longest highway of Nepal stretching 1028 kilometers from Mechi in the east to Mahakali in the west.

In the first phase of upgradation, a 112 kilometer section of the highway from Narayangadh to Butwal will be converted into eight lanes. Currently, the road section is of four lanes.

Joint-secretary Rajendra Raj Sharma, spokesperson of the ministry, informed that the first phase of upgradation work is being carried out with 15 billion loan from the Asian Development Bank. Other sections of the highway will be gradually upgraded after that, according to Sharma.

“We are in the final phase of starting the upgradation works. The works will begin from January,” said Sharma.

According to the ministry, there will be 21 motorable bridges in the road section of the highway. After the completion of the work, the ministry will start upgrading the road section from Narayangadh to Koshi via Pathlaiya.

The ADB has been doing homework in coordination with the ministry in order to expand the highway from Kakarbhitta in the east to Banbasa in the west.

The ministry has given priority in upgrading the eastern section of the highway due to traffic congestion.

The construction of the highway started in 2019 BS but the highway has not been expanded in the last fifty years. 

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