The remote mountainous Bhotkhola area of ​​the district is connected to the road network up to Kimathanka, near the China border.

The construction of 357 kilometers of road from Jogbani in Morang to Kimathanka under the North-South Koshi Highway has been completed.

The North-South Koshi Road Project has stated that 157 kilometers of Khandbari-Kimathanka and 200 kilometers of Khandbari-Jogbani roads have been completed. Currently, 200 kilometers of blacktop roads are in operation up to Khandbari.

The work of blacktopping the 39 kilometers of road from Khandbari to Noom is going on at a rapid pace. The construction of the unpaved road in the area above Noom has been completed, informed the project head Ram Bahadur Gurung.

The Nepali Army had constructed the road from Chyamtang to Ghongappa in the Bhotkhola rural municipality area, which is considered the most challenging section of road construction. The Army had handed over the road project on Baisakh 28. Although the initial target was to build 14 kilometers of road, the total length of the road in the final survey has been fixed at 10.81 kilometers due to changes in geography and alignment.

Three days after the handover of the road, three tractors carrying food grains reached Kimathanka for the first time on Jestha 1. The vehicle, which traveled from Khandbari, the district headquarters, reached Kimathanka village for the first time after the cliff of Ghongappa from Chyamtang in Bhotkhola was broken.

Locals are excited after the tractor reached the village for the first time. Bhotkhola Rural Municipality Chairman Wadchhedar Bhote said that the locals gave a grand welcome to the tractor driver, excavator driver and the team related to the Kimathanka road campaign. Locals are celebrating as the dream of the road for years has been fulfilled.

The area above the Barun River is still dangerous and difficult. Road upgrading work is currently underway in the area. Gurung said that although the road operation will be challenging during the rainy season due to landslides, steep slopes and difficult terrain, the plan to upgrade it is aimed at.

'We expect significant changes in the economic, social and commercial activities of the Bhotkhola area with the completion of the road construction,' said Rural Municipality Chairman Bhote. 'I am confident that local products will find a market, transportation of daily necessities will be facilitated and access to health and education will expand.'

Locals expect that the operation of the road will also facilitate emergency services. Chairman Bhote said that once the road reaches the Kimathanka area, which is connected to the China border, new possibilities will open up for tourism promotion, trade expansion and development of the border area.

He said that this road is seen as a north-south strategic route with the belief that it will make a long-term contribution to the economic prosperity of Koshi Province. 'Kimathanka, which has been confined to a remote mountainous settlement for decades, is now directly connected to the national road network. The locals have finally realized that development has arrived in the village,' he said.

The construction of the road connecting Khandbari to Kimathanka started in the financial year 2065/2066. The planning office has reported that about Rs 16.2 billion has been spent so far. According to local Zippa Tenzing Bhote, the price of daily necessities will be cheaper if regular transport is operated. Earlier, he said, transporting goods from Khandbari to Kimathanka cost at least Rs 40 per kilogram.