Four and a half billion of the expressway has been transferred to the physical

Military spokesman and assistant Rathi Krishna Prasad Bhandari said that since the contracts could not be managed in all the packages of the project in the current financial year, the money was returned to Artha.

'If the contract could be managed in all the packages, the allocated amount would have been insufficient,' said spokesperson Bhandari, 'after the contract in some packages, the further process has been stopped due to litigation, due to which some amount has been returned as it was seen that it could not be spent . "The package with contract management is being worked on in full swing."

'If there were no issues in some of the packages, we would have had to give a small amount through the contract agreement, which would have increased the budget,' he said, 'the funds have been returned to support projects under other ministries.' Dhaniram Sharma, Joint Secretary and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Finance, said that the amount has been 'surrendered'. Now the contract management of the additional tunnels is being prepared.

Sushilbabu Dhakal, director general of the road department, said that 4 billion 52 million rupees were demanded for the fast track and 4 billion rupees were received. "For more money, the Ministry of Finance stopped it saying that the documents were not received, now we have received an assurance that the process will proceed to get the remaining amount," he said, "The said amount was not requested for this project, the payment has not been made even after the work has been done on the project running all over the country. , this amount will be given to such projects.

The budget ceiling of the fast track will be set by the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport and its implementation will be done by the Nepali Army through the Ministry of Defense, Director General Dhakal said. "The fast track project surrendered to Artha that they could not spend the allocated amount in the current financial year," he said, "Since that money is within the ceiling of the physical budget, we have requested to give it to the projects under the ministry, accordingly, the amount has come". He claims .

This is not the first time that Fast Track appears to be weak in spending the allocated amount. Even in the financial year 079/80, this project could not spend even half of the allocated budget . For this project, 29 billion 99 million 97 million rupees were allocated for capital in that year, in which only 14 billion 94 million 18 million rupees were spent. That is, 49.62 percent of the allocated capital budget was spent.

It has been 6 years since its construction started under the management of the Nepali Army. So far its physical progress is 31.90 percent . Out of 13 packages of the project, 1 to 7 and package number 10 are being contracted.

The army has said that it is in the final preparation of the contract agreement after completing the financial evaluation on package number 8 'B'. Similarly, the spokesperson Bhandari said that the case regarding the technical evaluation of package 8 'A', 9 'A' and 'B' is under consideration in Patan High Court. The starting point is in Lalitpur's Khokna area, as the land dispute and other issues have not yet been resolved, so the work has not progressed.

According to the contract, the work should be completed by 081 December. But since the work cannot be completed in that period, the deadline has been extended till 083 Chait. Its initial estimated budget was 1 trillion 75 billion rupees. With the extension of the deadline, the cost has also been increased to 2 trillion 11 billion 93 crore rupees. The distance from Khokna in Lalitpur to Nijgarh in Bara has been fixed at 70.977 km after the cabinet meeting held on July 30 gave approval to amend the Detailed Project Report (DPR).

Earlier the distance of the section was 72.5 km. While the speed of the overall project is slow, progress has been seen in the construction of the tunnel. 73 percent of the work of the tunnel under construction has been completed . There are currently 3 tunnels under construction on the fast track. Out of 6 thousand 415 meters, 4 thousand 653 meters have been excavated. That is, now only 1762 meters are left to be dug, said the spokesperson Bhandari.

3 tunnels have been added after DPR revision. According to the project, the Chandram Bhir tunnel with a distance of 2,250 meters is under design. According to Bhandari, the procurement process for the construction of one km Devichaur and 0.39 km Sisautar tunnel under Package 8 'B' is in the final stage.