While the discussion of expanding the second section of the Ring Road has been going on for 7 years, the work has not started, while the blacktop work is currently underway on the third section. Under the third section expansion, one side of the road from Narayan Gopal Chowk to Chappal Karkhana section has been blacktopped. Preparations are underway to blacktop the other side as well.

According to the contract agreement signed on 6 Falgun 081, the work on this section should have been completed by 25 Asar 082.

After the work was not completed within that time, the deadline is extended to 13 Falgun, and the progress is 65 percent. However, it is not in sight that the work will be completed within that time. Subodh Kumar Devkota, Chief of Road Division Kathmandu, claims that it will not take much time as all the construction work has been completed and only the blacktop work is left.

‘It may take two to four days, but there is no problem in completing the work,’ he said, ‘The main work has been completed, now only the blacktop remains, the first layer of blacktop has been blacktopped on one side.’ The contract for the 700-meter road expansion has been won by Ambuja/SK/Kali JV. He said that the contract amount including VAT is Rs 240 million. It has been expanded to 6 lanes.

‘Now we are preparing to expand the road from the Chappal Factory to Gopikrishna Bridge, for which we have sent the National Planning Commission seeking a resource consent of Rs 510 million,’ he said, ‘which is about 1,200 meters long.’