Although the Gandaki Provincial Government has allocated Rs 10 million in the current fiscal year for the construction of a motorable bridge over the Myagdi River, there has been confusion in its implementation.
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The plan to build a bailey bridge as an alternative to the landslide at Phaparkhet, which has become the main challenge on the Beni-Darbang road connecting three local levels in the western region of Myagdi with the district headquarters Beni, is in limbo.
Although the Gandaki Provincial Government has allocated Rs 10 million in the current fiscal year for the construction of a motorable bridge over the Myagdi River connecting Mangala Rural Municipality-3 Pakher and 2 Simalchaur as an alternative to the landslide in Phaparkhet, there has been confusion in its implementation.
Resham Bahadur Jugjali, a member of the Gandaki Provincial Assembly elected from Myagdi 1(B), said that the plan to build a bailey bridge is in doubt due to the delay in providing the bailey bridge by the federal government.
'The provincial government's cabinet meeting had asked the federal government's Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Management for a 55-meter-long backup bailey bridge two years ago,' he said. 'The problem has arisen due to the non-implementation of the agreement between the federal government to provide the bailey bridge, the provincial government to connect it and build the access road.'
Khambir Garbuja, a former member of the House of Representatives, was coordinating with the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development and Transport Management for bailey bridge management when he was the Minister of State for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. 'The process of handing over the Bell Bridge to the provincial government was in its final stages when the government changed with the Genji movement,' Garbuja said. 'Even after the formation of the last government, despite continuous initiatives for the Bell Bridge, no progress has been made.'
In Phaparkhet, which is on the border of Beni Municipality-4 and Mangala Rural Municipality-2, there is a large landslide above the road, while the Myagdi River is below the road. Since the construction of the road, which was opened before 2060 BS, landslides have occurred every rainy season and direct transport services on the 24-kilometer Beni-Darwang road have been closed. The risk of accidents has increased.
In the last two months, two cargo trucks have fallen into the Myagdi River on the narrow road in that place, where landslides continue to occur from above. The Beni-Darwang road, which connects Mangala, Malika and Dhaulagiri rural municipalities with Beni Bazaar, is also used by residents of Tamankhola rural municipality in Baglung.
Dhruv Khatri of Mangala Rural Municipality-2 SIM said that there were problems for locals in moving around, taking patients to hospitals, taking milk, vegetables, fruits to the market, transporting daily necessities and construction materials.
Three hydropower projects under construction on the Myagdi River and the Dadakhet Rahughat substation and transmission line, roads, buildings, drinking water, irrigation and other development projects have also been affected due to the landslide.
Although the then JBS built a concrete wall under the road to prevent erosion of the Myagdi River, efforts to control the landslide on the road have failed and the investment has been wasted. The Infrastructure Development Office, Myagdi, has made arrangements to remove the landslide that has fallen on the road and operate transport.
