Bishnu Nath Sharma, Information Officer at the Integrated Services Office, informed that 86 project agreements have been signed in the first nine and a half months of the current year.
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To facilitate access to the tourist area, 94 hiking trails are to be completed in Baglung this year. The Integrated Services Office has started work on these hiking trails in places with tourism potential in the district.
The office's information officer, Bishnu Nath Sharma, informed that 86 plans have been signed in the first nine and a half months of the current year. Eight plans have not yet been signed. The plans were made with the aim of promoting tourism. Most of the plans signed in this way will be built with local resources.
21 plans have been completed in the operational plan. Of these, the plan from Balprabha Basic School to Jaljala in Baglung Municipality-13, costing Rs 1 million, has been completed. Similarly, the hiking trail to Simalbot Homestay in Galkot Municipality-5 has also been completed. In all the plans, the hiking trails have been made with stone stairs, and the resting places are also traditionally made of wood and stone. Most of the projects in this campaign are worth between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 1 million. Chief of the office, Shiva Sharma, said that such projects were launched with the belief that using original art and labor to build trails would also help in promoting tourism. According to him, since using original materials by locals will also help in identifying and promoting homestays, religious and tourist areas, he informed that plans of the same nature have been included.
Most of the places where the community is active have been worked in partnership. When the locals became active in building a plan worth Rs 1 million, work of up to Rs 1.5 million has been done.
In some places where the community could not be mobilized, trails using slopes or cement have also been built. Sharma informed that efforts have been made to make those trails as original as possible. According to the data as of April 10, out of 94 trail plans that have been selected, eight plans are yet to be agreed upon. There have been no plan agreements due to internal disputes in those plans.
A project to be built in Dhorpatan Valley has not been agreed upon due to delays in the formation of the local consumer committee. Apart from that, the Rs 700,000 project to connect Ward No. 4 Tangram from Kimbot in Kathekhola Rural Municipality-6 has not been agreed upon yet due to local disputes. Similarly, the BP Memorial Park to be built in Baglung Municipality-5 and the Samsas Ghat Thamkiladanda trekking trail in Kathekhola Rural Municipality-3 have also not been agreed upon yet. Consumers of the projects for which no agreement has been reached have not even contacted the office yet. The office had built 52 trekking trails last year. Locals said that these trails have made it easier to reach homestays in rural areas, saved the cost of building a motorable road, and facilitated flood and landslide control. Pawan Hamal, Ward Chairman of Galkot Municipality-5, said that the trails have made the rural environment attractive. Half a dozen attractive trekking trails have been built here from last year to the current year.
