More than a dozen projects implemented in Baglung district have been stalled for years. Local residents have been frustrated as these projects have not been completed on time.

Among them, projects of national pride, strategic roads, bridges, and drinking water projects have been stalled. The Baglung District Assembly has decided to draw the attention of all bodies to immediately implement these stalled projects and write to government bodies to resume work.

The district assembly held on Saturday drew the attention of the project office to immediately construct the 25-km stalled section of the Mid-Hill Highway in Kathekhola Rural Municipality. Similarly, the Baglung section of the Saljhandi-Dhorpatan road has also been stalled for 16 years. Although budget is allocated for that road every year, it is being spent only towards Gulmi and Arghakhanchi.

The federal government has been drawn to the attention of the federal government by expressing concern over the stalled projects on the strategic road, such as the Baglung section of the road from Baglung to Kushmisera via Bareng and Gulmi's Shantipur, the Sumsaghat motorable bridge, the motorable bridge at Daramkhola in Galkot, the Baglung Municipal Hospital, the administrative buildings of Jaimini and Galkot municipalities, and the road connecting Dhorpatan to Taksera in Rukum.

The 10-km road from Balewa to Maldhunga on the Kaligandaki Corridor has been stalled. The contractor company has not been able to complete it despite extending the deadline three times. Locals said that the contractor has stopped work to sell the construction materials here to other projects. Bidari Construction has excavated stones from the Kalakhola on this road and also used a crusher. But the road has not been built.

There has also been a demand to make the dilapidated bridges at Jaimini Dham and Lounwakhola in Belbagar in the corridor . The district assembly has drawn immediate attention to the fact that the trust bridge built by the Nepali Army when the track was opened a decade ago has become dilapidated and has not been replaced by the Corridor Project Office, which has created a risk of accidents . 

Large and heavy vehicles have started plying on the corridor recently . Amar Bahadur Thapa, head of the District Coordination Committee, said that although the bridges are road-level, they have not been repaired . ‘Large trucks and buses ply on this road, but the trust bridge built when the road track was opened has not been replaced,’ Thapa said, ‘Who will be responsible if an accident occurs?’ He said that he has drawn the attention of the project .

The royalty collected from the Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve has gone only to the federal government, so the assembly has demanded that it be spent on local development . There is a demand that the reserve amount be distributed to the affected Dhorpatan Municipality, Nisikhola Rural Municipality and Tamankhola Rural Municipality.

The consumers have been affected by the fact that the fare charged by vehicles operating within the district when the roads were unpaved has not been reduced even after they have been converted to blacktop and highways, and the concerned bodies have demanded immediate adjustment.

Locals have been charging Rs 2,000 more to reach rural settlements from the district headquarters. While it costs Rs 400 to reach Pokhara, which is 72 km away, it costs three times the fare to reach Burtiwang, which is 90 km away. Locals complained that they had to pay more than Rs 2,000 to reach Taman's Sole.