After the construction of this road, transportation facilities will be facilitated between Diprung Chuichumma, Khotehang, Jantedhunga in the southern part of the district and Diktel, the headquarters of Barahapokhari Rural Municipality.
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Bids have been invited for the blacktop of the Khanidanda-Yamkha Ratmata-Diprung Chuichumma-Panchami road connecting the district headquarters Diktel to the southern region. The bids were invited on Sunday for the blacktop of the road worth about Rs 300 million.
According to Binam Dahal, Chief Engineer of the Infrastructure Development Office, Diktel, the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development of Koshi Province has invited bids for the construction of about 8 kilometers of road at a cost of Rs 299.987.389 crore.
A multi-year contract source agreement was reached for the project on Bhadra 3, 2082. ‘The notice for the bidding of this road was published today,’ Dahal said, ‘The contract will be opened after a month, and an agreement will be reached after the technical and financial proposals are evaluated.’
Dahal said that although the cost of the 15-kilometer road from Khanidanda-Yamkha Ratmata-Diprung Chuichumma-Panchami was estimated at Rs 620 million, only Rs 300 million has been secured. Dahal said that this will build an 8-kilometer asphalt concrete road with a thickness of 50 mm and a width of five meters and five centimeters.
After the construction of this road, direct transportation facilities will be facilitated with Diprung Chuichumma, Khotehang, Jantedhunga and Diktel, the headquarters of Barahapokhari Rural Municipality in the southern part of the district. Bhupendra Rai, Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development and Health of Koshi Province, has said that a tender will be floated this fiscal year for the construction of the remaining road from the supplementary fund of the federal government and the provincial government.
‘Currently, 8 kilometers of the road will be constructed from the budget of Rs 3 million of the Koshi Province government,’ Rai said, ‘After that, a tender will be floated again from the supplementary fund of the federal government and the provincial government this fiscal year.’
Similarly, on Sunday, a concrete bridge was also awarded for the construction of the Locha Khola motorable bridge connecting Ward No. 1 Kubhinde and 6 Hauchur of Rawabesi Rural Municipality. Of these, the contract was awarded for the construction of the Buakhola bridge at a cost of Rs 250 million and the Locha Khola bridge at a cost of Rs 51.1 million.
