Only 67.56 percent progress in the 15 years since the construction started, problems in completing the project in the stipulated time due to lack of budget and changes in drawings.
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The postal highway, which was started a decade and a half ago to connect the district headquarters of Terai from east to west, has not yet been completed. After 15 years of construction, the progress is only 67.56 percent. When will the construction be completed? The project office itself is unanswered in this question.
Its construction process has been started according to the concept of connecting the land from Kechnakawal in Jhapa to Dodhara Chandni in Kanchanpur in the west. Its construction has been started to benefit about one crore people of 21 districts of Terai-Madhesh.
According to this, the total distance of the highway is 1857.42 km. The distance from Middle East to West is 975 km. It includes 882.42 km of subsidiary roads. So far, only 1254.68 km of roads have been paved. Although the construction of Hulaki Highway was started from 066/67, the work is still not completed. While starting the project, financial year 079/80 Within the
it was mentioned that the construction work would be completed. Since the work could not be completed in this period, the time was extended till 080/81. As it was seen that the work could not be completed at that time, it has been proposed to extend the time till 083/84. There is little chance of finishing the work even within the additional time, according to the project source. When the project started, the initial cost estimate was Rs 47 billion 24 crore. Later it was revised to 65 billion 20 million. Now its cost is increasing to 1 trillion 1 billion 93 crore rupees. So far, 66 billion 10 million 33 million rupees have been spent.
According to the initial drawing, construction of the road from the park was mentioned, but the work was not done according to it, as a result of which the work was delayed at the appointed time, said Kuwer Nepali, Project Director of the Postal Highway Directorate. "Initially, it was planned to build the road from the park itself, but that did not happen," he said, "now the initial plan will have to be changed and built in the district with parks." According to him, the road will be built from beyond Chitwan, Bardia and Shuklaphanta Park.
"Changing the initial layout will increase both the cost and the distance," he said, "The road built in this way will not be directly connected east-west, it will be connected to urban roads." In Dang, 22 km has not yet been contracted. Because of settlements and forests, the work in this section could not be done on time. Project director Nepali said that preparations are being made to manage the
contract. "Except for one section of Nikunj and Dang, there is no more work to be done by contract," he said. He said that 19 bridges are currently under contract.
'The problem is the budget, the work is being done under a contract worth 16 billion. "This also has to be paid for," Nepali said, "we were preparing to contract another 16 billion rupees, but due to lack of resource assurance, the contract could not be awarded." Due to the failure of construction professionals to work on time, there has been a problem in the construction of Kankai, Kamala and Wagmati bridges. The contract of Wagmati bridge has been broken and a new contract has been made.
"When the project will be completed depends on the condition of resources, the problem is always only this," he said, "Government policy states that there should be no problem in projects of national pride." But it has always been a problem to achieve progress due to budget problems.'
3 billion 300 million rupees budget has been allocated for the postal highway for the current financial year. Which is less than last financial year. In the last financial year, a budget of 3.49 billion rupees was allocated for postal highways. Since the budget is not enough, it has been a problem to manage the new contract and give full payment despite the work on the old contract.
In the first quarter of the current financial year, there is a lack of budget in the project. The work is being done through 6 planning offices under the Directorate of Postal Highways. The project directorate said that the budget allocated for the current financial year has been exhausted in the payment of the last financial year. We ask for more budget for the current financial year. Now the budget will come, there is no other option but to say, let's work," he said. "The finance has sent a letter saying that it will not be possible to provide more funds due to the pressure on the resources. Due to this, confusion has been added to the development offices.'
