Travel on the Butwal-Narayangadh road has become easier after the blacktopping of most parts, except the Daunne section, is complete. The goal is to complete the remaining work before the monsoon.
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Seven years after the expansion began, travel on the Butwal-Narayangadh section of the Mahendra Highway has become easier.
Travel has become easier after the completion of the blacktop except for some sections of the Daunne hills. Work is currently underway in the Daunne hills section.
More than 91 percent of the work has also been completed in the Daunne section. The project has stated that work is being done to complete everything before the rainy season. The project has stated that slopes and blacktops have been completed on 14 kilometers under Daunne. The project claims that passengers and locals who have been suffering from the problem of traffic jams for hours will no longer have to suffer.
Shiva Khanal, Information Officer of the Eastern Section of the Butwal-Narayangadh Road Expansion Project, said that work is being done with the aim of completing the blacktop and slope work on the Daunne section before Jestha 15.
According to him, blacktop and slope work on 65 kilometers of the eastern section The work has been completed. ‘You will be able to travel easily during the rainy season,’ he said, ‘We are currently working on road safety and other works along with road blacktop. Travel on the Daunne section will be easy after Jestha 15.’
Bikash Khanal, Information Officer of the West Section, said that only 800 meters of slope are left to be made towards the west section. ‘In the next 15 days, we will complete the blacktop and slope to be done on the Daunne section,’ he said, ‘Travel will be easy during the rainy season.’ The deadline was extended for the fourth time after the work on this road section was not completed. The deadline for the eastern section has been extended until 2083 Shrawan 7 and the deadline for the western section has been extended until 2083 Shrawan 5. The fourth extension of the project, whose work began in Chaitra 2075, is set to end in the coming Shrawan. Chinese contractor China State Engineering Corporation had won the contract to expand the two-section 114-kilometer road for 17 billion.
