The survey will take two months, the contract will be invited within a year
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A Chinese technical team has finally arrived to start the work on the second section of the ring road, which has not been completed for a long time. The ring road expansion project said that the team will conduct a survey for two months and finalize the detailed project report (DPR) within the next four months. Only then will the construction process proceed.
Krishnanath Ojha, Head of the Kathmandu Circular Road Road Expansion Plan said that there are no problems at the construction site and all the preparatory work has been completed. He said that after the completion of the DPR work, the road department will approve it only after conducting necessary studies. "A technical team has arrived from China on Saturday, the team will fly a drone and survey," he said, "and has asked for permission to work in the area to be expanded." We have given permission for that on Tuesday.' Five technicians from the Chinese state-owned company CCCC First Highway Consultants and Xi'an Fangzhou Engineering Consulting Limited have come to conduct the
survey. The road department said that this number is decreasing.
How much the cost will be known after the DPR is prepared, said Vijay Jaisi, head of the Development Assistance Implementation Division of the Road Department. "After all the study work, the cost estimate will be prepared, the Chinese technicians will be able to do a lot of work sitting here, they will return to China only after taking the necessary data and studying," he said, "If there are no problems, the contract for this section will start within one year." "In this, we only have to coordinate, the contract will be in China, and only the company that will undertake the construction will come to Nepal," Jaisi said, "we will proceed with the contract accordingly."
At present there is a four-lane road from Kalanki to Sitapaila and a two-lane road from Sitapaila to the circular path section. Now, after the expansion, it will become an eight-lane road apart from the service lane. On August 6, a letter was signed between the representatives of the Nepalese and Chinese governments, but since then there has been no progress, which has added to the frustration of the general public. Members of Parliament from various areas of Kathmandu had been putting pressure on the government demanding that the expansion work should start soon.
The work of Koteshwar-Kalanki first section started in 2069 and was completed in 2075. The second section is going to extend the 8.2 km road from Kalanki to Bashundhara culvert with the grant of the Chinese government. A G2G agreement was signed with China in 2018 for road expansion.
The then Physical Infrastructure and Transport Minister Narayankaji Shrestha, the Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Chhan Song and a joint team announced on February 11, 2079 that the design work had been advanced after the on-site inspection of the road expansion section. But then neither China spoke about the design, nor did the Nepal government inform that the design had been completed. Earlier, China took 6 years to build the 10.39 km road from Koteshwar to Kalanki. The road was expanded to 8 lanes with a 5 billion grant from China.
The government of Nepal itself is working on a contract for 700 meters of the shoe factory from Maharajgunj. There is no Chinese involvement in this section. Narayanadatta Bhandari, Head of Road Division, Kathmandu, said that the 2.4 km section from Maharajgunj to Gopikrishna Bridge will be expanded to 8 lanes except for the service lane. He also claims that 20 percent of the work has been completed in the section where the contract has been signed.
It has been 7 years since the discussion of expanding the second section of the ring road. But neither the design nor the construction took off. As a precaution, roads were destroyed everywhere in the Kalanki-Basundhara section. The road itself was narrowed by piling up mud. Due to this reason, the common people and drivers who travel on Bashundhara-Kalanki road continue to suffer daily due to dust in winter and mud in winter. In the early days, China took the stance of not proceeding with the construction process without preparation.
The Nepal government, which is delaying the preparations, hastily completed its responsibility. Even after four years of preparatory work, the Chinese team did not come and start work. Ojha said that the road section where more dust was blown was repaired as the local population started increasing daily.
