Since Thursday, vehicles have been getting stuck near the Vishkarma temple in the southern section. Drivers and passengers are shocked when landslides occur in places.
It takes at least 7 hours for the vehicle to cross the road when the vehicle gets stuck in the lower section of the East-West Highway due to rain.
Passengers traveling on the Butwal-Narayangadh road have been facing similar problems for the past three days. Since last Thursday, vehicles have been getting stuck near the Vishkarma temple in the southern section. Drivers and passengers are shocked when landslides occur in places.
Although the train coming from Kawasoti-Narayangadh from Butwal is crossing for hours, the train going from Dumkibas to Bardghat-Butwal takes more than 7 hours to cross.
Anup Acharya of Kapilvastu, who walked from Bardghat at 12 o'clock last night, said that he arrived at Dumkibas at 9 o'clock on Saturday morning. It took more than 7 hours to cross the 7 km road of Downne. Out of the 14 km of Downe, about 7 km of one-way slope road has been constructed.
Thousands of passengers who have gone home to celebrate the approaching Dasain are in trouble. According to Sunil Khanal of Dumkibas, the vehicles that have been stopped since 12 midnight on Friday have not yet been able to cross the Jamire of Dumkibas (go west).
The Chinese company that took the contract for the construction of the highway did not demolish the lower road and did not build it. According to the data of the district traffic police, 18,000 vehicles ply daily on this road of Butwal-Narayangadh section.
