Last Tuesday, when a car number BAA 0017 was going from Chandrakot in Gulmi to Butwal, it was swept away by the Dahare river at Satyavati-6 in Gulmi, and three passengers escaped by jumping out. The car got stuck in a bugger 50 meters down. The same river also washed away a jeep numbered Lu 1 J 3432 going from Butwal to Bamitaksar on October 1, 2078. The passengers got off early and saved their lives, but the car disappeared into the Badigad river.

The problem of blocking the road in the river on the Butwal-Burtiwang road is common for the travelers here. Because when the vehicle moves on the mud, it flows along with the mud. Sometimes the dozers have to pull the vehicle to cross it and sometimes they wait for a long time after the water stops and go to the destination.

Even though vehicles do not run like Dahar, Nadeva, Dahar and Bharsekhola of the same road section are blocked for a long time due to floods. Bridges under construction on all the four rivers have been stalled due to lack of budget allocation to pay installments of the contract. Bhagwat Giri, head of construction company Rajeshwari Lumbini JV, said that only 5 crore rupees have been paid till the completion of the bridge, which was contracted by Road Division Office Palpa on 22nd of June 2080 to be built at a cost of 220 million rupees.

"The 40-meter long bridge of Dahare Khola has been sloped, if there is money, it can be made to drive vehicles in a week, the work of the pillars of the other 3 bridges has been completed but there is no money to slope," he says, "the bridge was built by taking a loan from the bank, the contract amount is not paid, now the builders are going to the bank auction." The contract is valid only until this July. He says that even though he has completed other construction works ahead of time and submitted them, the budget for those bridges was not given, so he said that he could not pay for them only with bank loans. He said that the bill of Rs 76 million, 16,411 for the fourth running bill was submitted to the Divisional Road Office in Palpa last June but has not been paid yet. But Giri says that there is no budget to pay the bill. 

'A total of 60 million has been allocated for this financial year. We had to wait until 2083 to get the payment of the last year's bill,' he says, 'How will we do the rest of the work when the amount of the old running bill has not been paid?'' says engineer Durga Gautam, information officer of Road Division Office Palpa, who has a problem when the budget is not coming as per the work.

There is no delay in the work, 85 percent of Dahra and 50 percent of the four bridges have been completed. But we could not pay the builders," Gautam said. "Last year's payment is only about 70 million, this year's budget is 60 million, if there is no more, this budget will not be enough to pay the rest of last year." "At least we have sent a file that new work could have been done with the 60 million allocated this year, if the payment of the balance of last year was arranged," he said. Gautam says that if the budget is made, the construction business will be able to complete the work this year. He said that the plan is to complete it by the next Dasain, if only the access road to the Dahare River is to be built so that the vehicle will be able to drive.