As the Kodari section became operational from Wednesday, small vehicles were passed on the first day and containers were passed on the second day.
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After 18 days, the Tatopani bridge, which was blocked due to a landslide in the Kodari section of the Araniko highway, has been put into operation. There was a traffic problem due to a landslide on the road of about 200 meters in that section. The road was washed away by a landslide on July 17. As a result, around 700 containers were stopped on the road towards Tatopani crossing.
After the road was put into operation on Wednesday evening, small vehicles were allowed to pass on the first day and containers were passed alternately on the second day, Sindhupalchok Chief District Officer Bandhu Prasad Bastola said.
'Now the road has been opened one way,' he said, 'It is covered with plastic up to the top of the hill. Therefore, there is no problem at the moment, there is a risk of landslides if there is heavy rain. "Now the containers that came with goods have been stopped at Tatopani crossing," he said, "We have received information that seven hundred containers have been stopped at China."
Bastola said that the containers going from Nepal to China and entering Nepal from there are being made to pass the road alternately. "The road is very difficult, it takes a long time to cross one container, so 60 containers arrive in a day and the same number are sent to China," he said. He says that if there is good sunshine for two days, the road operation will be very easy. Fruits, clothes, vehicles and other goods are imported through this border. Since
, Syafrubansi-Rasuwagadhi road has been blocked since last July 14. The road was blocked for 12 days due to the flood on June 24. After 13 days, the road was closed due to another landslide within 10 days of its one-way operation from July 4. According to the road department, the problem is due to the fact that the road is being built on one side and Bhotekoshi is digging from below.
Shubraj Neupane, the head of the Federal Road Supervision and Monitoring Office, said that it will take another week to put this road into operation. 600 meters of road has been completely damaged in 5 places in different sections. A hundred meters of road was cut by Trishuli River in Khalte of Uttar Gaya Rural Municipality. Neupane says that the road has been opened since Thursday evening. "There is still a problem in two places on the Safrubensi-Rasuwagadhi road section," he said, "the road is being opened by cutting rocks at those places."
After the flood that occurred in Lhendekhola last June 24 swept away the bridge connecting the border, the prepared goods could not arrive, due to which even the Rasuwagadhi customs border has come to a standstill. Keshav Kumar Sharma, secretary of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport said that there was a problem in opening the road due to the difficult section. "At present, efforts are being made to open the road," he said, "but the road will be operational before the Beilibridge connecting the border is built."
Currently, the construction of Beilibridge in China has progressed. "Since a 50-meter long bailey bridge has to be built, it is understood that the work is being done accordingly," he said, "There is also a problem with the foundation prepared to build a bridge on the Chinese side, as the flood coming to Lhendekhola is washing away and burying it."
Sharma says that before the bridge is built, the 16 km road connecting Syafrubansi-Rasuwagadhi will be made temporarily and put into operation. "Chadbad is approaching, we will temporarily repair the road to bring goods from the border," he said.
More than 100 containers pass through Rasuwagadhi crossing every day. Now, the road and bridge have been swept away by the flood, and the border is closed. Especially vehicles, fruits and clothes are brought from the border. A few days ago, the Chairman of the Infrastructure Development Committee of the House of Representatives, Deepak Bahadur Singh, had also instructed the Physical Ministry to open both the roads connecting the northern border before the festival.
