It has been found that the builders have been misbehaving on the ring road road connecting wards from Gharpazhong Rural Municipality-5 of Mustang.
Gharpazhong-5 Ward Office has asked the Infrastructure Development Office for an explanation after increasing complaints of misbehavior by the related construction company while paving the Jomsom-Thini road under Gharpazhong Ring Road.
Infrastructure Development Office Mustang under the Gandaki Provincial Government signed a contract with Bandana Bhagwati JV on October 21, 2076, at a cost of Rs.
It was planned to open a new track out of the 10 km road under the ring road and blacken a distance of 5.5 km from Jomsom to Dhumba.
There was a plan to make a premix black sheet for a distance of five km from Jomsom-Thini-Dhumba on the eight meter wide road along with the construction of the road drain. Gharpazhong Ring Road has been extended more than five times for the contract period until January 2077.
Gharpazhong ring road, which is listed as a dilapidated project, has been delayed due to the construction company showing extreme delay in the construction of the ring road. After repeated instructions from the Infrastructure Development Office to the construction company, 3 km of the Jomsom-Thini road under the Gharpazhong Ring Road was blacklisted last November. Now, the locals of that area are expressing their dissatisfaction saying that the black paper of the road going to Jomsom-Thini is poor and worn.
The local stakeholders have started complaining that the black paper road has collapsed due to the lack of technical approval by the authorized body. The construction company suspended the road upgrading work by covering a distance of three km under the Gharpazhong Ring Road last December due to the increase in cold. Even after three months have passed since the construction company suspended the work, the ring road construction work has not yet started.
The Ward Office of Gharpazhong-5 Thini has requested an explanation from the Infrastructure Development Office on 21st December with the increase in public complaints regarding the black-lettering on the Jomsom-Thini road under the ring road. In the letter signed by the ward president Pradeep Thakali, it is mentioned that the black paper of Jomsom-Thini road is of poor quality and very weak. In the
letter, since there is widespread dissatisfaction among the local residents regarding the quality of this black paper road, how can the quality of the road be maintained? It has been mentioned in the letter that the ward office has drawn attention to submit a clear answer in this regard.
On the other hand, the Information Officer of the Infrastructure Development Office, Engineer Ghanshyam Rokkamar, said that if there is a problem on the Jomsom-Thini Kalopatra road, it can be re-solved. Engineer Rokkamar informed that the letter from the ward office had been received and the reply had been written and sent. He said that the road is 5 cm thick pre-mixed black sheet and if any error is found in the technical study, it can be corrected.
He said, 'The contract agreement and conditions have not been implemented by the construction company. "Perhaps there was a problem because the temperature did not reach, the work should have been done at a favorable time", he said, "The city could not tell us that it would work, so we allowed them to blacktop up to Thini village." On the ring road, there is still work to be done on the road structure, drain construction, road finishing etc. After the construction of Gharpazhong Ring Road, it seems that the marketing of the agricultural produce of half a dozen villages including Thini, Dhumba, Samle, Chhairo and Chimang, which are overshadowed by the main road, will be very easy.
