Butwal-Gorusinge road section road expansion work is going on in full swing. 6 percent physical and 2.5 percent economic progress has been seen in the three months since the agreement was signed for road expansion.

Chinese construction company Shanxi Construction Engineering Group Corporation and Chitwan's Ashish Construction Services have signed a contract worth 13 billion 550 million 95 million 96 thousand rupees for road expansion. In the contract signed last June, it is mentioned that the contract will come into effect from 4th of October . However, the construction company started the work from the second week of demand due to the hassle of cutting trees and extending power lines. There has been 6 percent material progress in almost three months. According to engineer Kulshata Neupane, head of the

project, in three months more than 7 thousand 100 trees were cut on the road side, the work of electric pole relocation was completed and now the work of bridge, culvert construction and wall for road expansion is going on in full swing . "As part of the project, 30 road bridges have to be built, out of which the foundation construction work of 10 bridges has been completed," she said, "After the foundation work, which takes the main time, will be completed, the bridge construction work will be carried out even during the rainy season." She also said that 35,000 curve stores to be placed on the side of the road to separate the road for footpaths and vehicles have been constructed and 10 km yard 'drain' construction has been completed.  The

project has been working by establishing a field office in Kapilvastu. In the first phase, the road from Butwal to Gorusinge section is being extended by 30 km to Rupandehi and 20 km to Kapilvastu. In the second phase, work will be done on the 19 km section from Gorusinge to Chandrauta. According to the Road Planning Office, out of 30 concrete bridges to be constructed, 20 in Ruppandehi and 10 in Kapilvastu, the concrete construction of 6 in Ruppandehi and 4 in Kapilvastu is going on in full swing. The work of retaining wall and culvert construction is also going on fast. 149 culverts and 6 under passes/over passes will be constructed. This road will be 50 meters wide in urban areas, 37 meters wide in suburban areas and 24 meters wide in forest areas. According to Jiges Prasad Chaudhary, site engineer of Kapilvastu project of

project, there will be 6 VOP under passes under 50 km road. He said that the four-lane road will go straight and the service lane will go back and forth through the underpass. Such underpasses will be built at Belbas, Naigaon, Tamnagar Chowk in Butwal. He said that the underpass will also be constructed at Murgia in Sainamaina and at the four number market of Kapilvastu. "Once the construction of the culvert is completed, the construction of the underpass will begin," he said, "after that, the work of the sky bridge will begin." He said that 12 underpasses and 11 sky bridges will be constructed for pedestrians.