Shubheksha Saru, information officer at the Road Division Office, said that the deadline is being extended until mid-Ashar. According to her, so far, 55 percent physical progress and about 44 percent financial progress have been seen on the road.
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Nine years after the road expansion began, the 3.5-kilometer section of Butwal's busy highway from Chauraha to Chidiya Khola has remained incomplete. The remaining section of the Butwal-Belahiya trade route has been completed for a long time. After the highway from Chauraha to Chidiya Khola section fell into disrepair, the process of extending the deadline has been started again. So far, only 55 percent of the road expansion work has been completed.
An agreement was signed with Kanchanjungha Biruwa JV on Chaitra 17, 2073 BS. According to the agreement, the road expansion should have been completed by mid-Ashar 2076 BS. At that time, a contract agreement was signed for Rs 539.799,400. After the expansion was not completed despite repeated extensions for eight years, the Road Division Office, Butwal, broke the agreement in Baisakh 2081 BS and gave a new contract to Babul Darshan Malika JV of Bhairahawa.
Babul Malika JV also had a contract agreement on 2081 Asoj 18 to complete the work within 1 year . A contract agreement was signed for 330 million including VAT to expand the approximately 3.5 kilometers of road into 6 lanes . However, after the construction company did not complete the work by 2082 Asoj 18, the deadline was extended to 2082 Chaitra. Since the expansion work was not completed even within the extended period, the deadline is going to be extended again for three months
Babul Darshan JV, whose deadline is going to be extended, is the construction company of Shafiq Ahmed Khan, father of Tawfiq Ahmed Khan, member of the House of Representatives of Rupandehi-5. After the father died on 2082 Bhadra 11, the company has now been transferred to the name of Tawfiq's brother Nafis According to the contract agreement, the sidewalk on the road from the intersection to Chidiya Khola will be three meters wide, the service lane will be seven meters wide, the greenbelt and stalls will be two and a half meters wide, and the main lane will be 10 and a half meters wide.
Shubheksha Saru, Information Officer of the Road Division Office, said that the deadline is being extended until mid-Ashar. According to her, 55 percent physical progress and about 44 percent financial progress have been seen so far. 'The deadline for the construction of the road was only until Chaitra 12, it could not be completed on time,' she said, 'Now the process has moved forward to extend the deadline until mid-Ashar.'
Khan, the director of Babul Darshan Malika JV, which was entrusted with the construction of the road, said that initially the work could not be done quickly due to the shortage of construction materials and now the increase in prices. Construction entrepreneurs had been demanding construction materials since last Chaitra. Khan said that he had sent letters to the Butwal Sub-metropolitan City three times in 2081 Mangsir, Chait and Magh 2082 requesting facilitation of construction materials. ‘We did not get them even when we requested in Jestha and Asoj,’ he said, ‘that is why there has been a delay.’ He complained that when he tried to start the work earlier, he did not get any stones, gravel or sand. He said that the prices of the materials have increased now.
He said that the river-based materials were immediately available and the work was ready to be completed by mid-Asard. He said that the work including road blacktop and slope work has been completed and only minor work remains, so now it can be completed within the additional deadline. Of which 45 percent work remains, the work of expanding the service lanes on both sides of the road from the bus park to the traffic chowk to the Golpark is still pending. Similarly, about 70 percent of the work on the greenery area and the sidewalk in the middle is still pending. The Road Division Office has stated that the construction of the steel bar to separate the main lane and service lane is more than 80 percent complete.
