March 21, Kathmandu. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has inaugurated the Constituency Strategic Road Program. Prime Minister Oli inaugurated the road construction program in all 165 federal constituencies once in three years by pressing a switch at a special ceremony held in Baluwatar.


After MPs demanded a large budget for the local infrastructure development program, the budget for the current fiscal year had put forward a program to build a road in a constituency. 3 billion 200 million budget has been allocated for this.

But with just a few months to go before the end of the fiscal year, the program has begun. Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Basant Kumar Nemwang informed that all the roads have been completed in three years under the multi-year project.

As per the criteria prepared by the Ministry, Rs. 600 million will be allocated for Himalayan district with one constituency, Rs. 500 million for hilly districts having one constituency and up to Rs.

Similarly, Rs. 250 million per road will be provided in 20 districts with three or more constituencies and up to Rs. 200 million per constituency in Kathmandu district. The ministry estimates that the total length of 165 roads will be 2210 kilometers and a budget of Rs 57.10 billion is required for this.

How are you preparing

The strategic road program has not been given as much importance in the pre-preparation as it has been launched.

The final list of roads to be built in each constituency has not been prepared yet. A detailed project report (DPR) and an environmental study are also pending.

Officials of the road department also admit that they are not prepared. Deputy Director General of the Department Shiva Prasad Nepal said that the distance of the proposed roads is yet to be decided even though the lawmakers have given the list. He said, "Looking at this, we estimate that 2200 kilometers of roads will be built." Most of the roads have not been DPR and surveyed.

Ministry officials say that laying the foundation stone of all 165 roads at a time when there is no possibility of starting work in the current fiscal year has no purpose other than political.

Apart from the Rs 3 billion allocated in the current fiscal year, managing a budget of Rs 54 billion in the remaining two years is no less challenging.


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March 21, Kathmandu. The army is preparing to start the second phase of construction of the Kathmandu-Terai-Madhesh Expressway road project. The army is about to start the construction of tunnels and bridges in the second phase after the formation of the road and completion of blacktop in most places.

"If there is no hindrance in the work so far, the construction of the tunnel and the bridge will start from the end of May," said Vishwabandhu Pahadi, chief technical officer of the expressway project implementation and operations.

According to Army Spokesperson Santosh Ballabh Poudel, there will be 6.4 kilometers of tunnel in Fasttack. Those roads will be at Mahadevtar, Dhedre and Lane Danda.

However, now that the Accounts Committee has given instructions to cancel the contract for the second package of tunnels and bridges, there is confusion as to whether the work will start on time or not. A military official said the decision would be made after receiving the details of the audit committee's directive.

87 bridges including 16 special ones and 71 others will also be constructed on the expressway.

Work from Nijgadh after a dispute in Khokna

The army has stated that the work of the second phase will start from Nijgadh. The army is moving ahead with the work from Nijgadh after the land compensation dispute in Khokana of Lalitpur was not resolved.

Even now, work is underway in an area of ​​22 kilometers from Nijgadh to Kathmandu. In the first phase, the army has completed the work of cutting and filling the 72.5 km road from Khokna to Nijgadh. The army has also built walls, box culverts and bailey bridges.

The army is claiming that the project will be completed by April 2081. For that, the army is ready to start working in different places at once by making different packages. The army has an action plan to complete all the packages in three to three and a half years.

This road will reach Kathmandu from Nijgadh in one hour after its completion. The government had given the responsibility on 27 August 2074 to complete the management of the army.