Baglung Municipality is paying 87 lakhs only for principal and interest of non-operating bus park

Baishak 9, 2082

Prakash Baral

Baglung Municipality is paying 87 lakhs only for principal and interest of non-operating bus park

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Baglung Bus Park, which was built five years ago at a cost of Rs 110 crore, has not yet been put into operation. Although Chief Minister Surendra Raj Pandey inaugurated a bus park in Upallachaur of Baglung Municipality Ward No. 4 last October, buses do not ply here regularly.

Due to the narrowness of the access road, the businessmen have not taken vehicles to the bus park. There is a rush of buses at Chipleti Bus Park, which is about to be relocated. Only sporadic vehicles reach the bus park to charge one/two vehicles and if they do not run for a few days. As there is no drinking water, hotels and restaurants here, the businessmen park their buses in their old locations and on the side of the road. Two common buses are also found on the road. 

Even though the bus park built with the loan from the Municipal Development Fund cannot run, the municipality has been paying 8.7 million interest to the fund every year. By the end of March, 45 percent of all the projects are progressing, while the loan has been paid 100 percent. A decade has passed since this debt was paid off. Since the bus park is not operating, the city has no income. 

The development budget of the city has been affected by the regular payment of capital interest. "If we didn't have to pay the loan, that money could have been used for other things," said Basant Kumar Shrestha, the mayor of the city.

At present, underground water is drawn here and fed. He said that the work of making 219 streams and 6 tanks for distribution could not proceed due to lack of budget. The Baglung Nagar water supply project, which is under construction at a cost of 310 million in 2075, with the goal of completing it in two years, has not yet been completed. The municipal drinking water consumer association has collapsed due to the debt taken from the fund by the municipality itself as a guarantee.  The

organization pays 80 lakh rupees annually for the principal and interest of the project. Hari Bahadur Gisi, Chairman of Kawa Consumer Committee, said that they are paying loans more than the amount of water tariff.

The old age home built in Ward No. 4 with an investment of 23.6 million rupees of the municipality has not yet been put into operation. Weeds are growing around the ashram built on 5 ropani land of Jangeshwar Mahadev Guthi. The house, which started construction in December 2070 and was completed in June 2080, is vacant. "Currently, no one has come in search of an ashram," said Mayor Shrestha.

Manavseva ashram is currently under construction along with this ashram at a cost of nearly 5 crores. Owner Lakshmi Baskota said that the Ashram aims to house 100 citizens without parents. Currently, the ashram is running in a private house in Bazar.

The Balewa airport, which was built with a black sheet at a cost of Rs. It is not yet certain whether the ship will sail here. Pokhara Airport, which oversees the work of Balewa Airport, is not aware of this. Since the right to send/not send the ship is vested in the central office and director general, Pokhara staff could not say anything. 

This airport was built by local people by donating labor from 2016 to 2018. The ship arrived in Kachi Maidan by 2051. The blacked ground for sailing is now becoming dilapidated.

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