The road is black. But electricity and telephone poles are in between. Electricity and telephone wires are made like spider webs. Potholes are also the same in places. The water pipe is leaking on the black-lined road and water is coming out. They have also caused the risk of accidents.

It has been 6 years since the upgradation of roads in the Mahendranagar market area under the Rural Urban Development Project with the help of the Asian Development Bank.

There have been works such as paving the road and construction of drains for drainage and railings. But the electricity and telephone poles in the middle of the road have not been moved. The potholes in different places have not been filled. 

Nepal Electricity Authority and Nepal Telecom have refused to remove the pole, so the road construction work has become chaotic. The sub-engineer of Bhimdatta Municipality and the focal person of the project, Pawan Okhtar, said that the poles were not removed even after repeated requests to electricity and telecom. 

'Telecom said that there is no problem to remove it, it said that it will pay the expenses itself, but now it has submitted an estimate of 1.6 million,' the author said, 'The project will pay the expenses of moving the electricity line.' It has been agreed that the City Development Committee will provide half of the estimate submitted by break Telecom. Under the project, the construction of a waste management center with a budget of more than 3.5 billion rupees will have to be done along with road upgrading.

The municipality has not been able to find a location for the waste management center. Although its work could not go ahead, the road upgrading work in the market area is going on at a cost of about one billion in the first phase. 

The work of the first phase has reached its final stage. But there is a delay due to some obstacles," said the writer, "Somewhere the electricity poles are entangled with land disputes."

According to him, the entire road has not been paved due to private land lying in 40 meters near Salghari. When widening the road, people's land should also be acquired. But the author said that there is a problem when some people do not leave the land because the project does not provide compensation when acquiring the land.

In the first phase, 14 km of road upgrading, 22 km of drainage, 776 street lights and 8 Himesk lights will have to be constructed. Railings will also have to be constructed on the road in the market area. Most of the work has reached the final stage. The author says that physical progress has also reached 96 percent. 

In the second phase, the contract process for road upgrading in the market area has reached its final stage. 66 crores, 8.5 km road will be upgraded. Under the rural urban development project, a waste management center has been constructed in Shuklaphanta municipality.