The contract management of the bridges under Baglung, Gulmi, Parbat and Palpa under the Maldhunga-Ramdi-Gandakot section of the Kaligandaki Corridor is pending.
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The contract for 17 concrete bridges is yet to be awarded in the Gaindakot-Ramdi-Maldhunga section of the national pride Kaligandaki Corridor Project. The contract management for the bridges under Baglung, Gulmi, Parbat and Palpa under Maldhunga-Ramdi-Gandakot of the Kaligandaki Corridor is pending.
The contract for 3 bridges in Palpa, 6 in Gulmi, 4 in Baglung and 4 in Parbat has not been awarded. The construction of all concrete bridges under Pipaldanda-Rampur-Gandakot under Palpa and Nawalparasi has been completed, said Shivlal Dahal, head of the Planning Office, Palpa. ‘The files of the remaining bridges have been sent to the National Planning Commission for source agreement for contract management,’ he said.
59 bridges were to be constructed in the lower section under the project. So far, the contract management of 42 bridges has been completed. Of which 37 concrete bridges have been constructed. Project Chief Dahal said that 5 bridges are under construction. The Project Office, Palpa, has been overseeing the work of a total of 293 kilometers of roads. There are 240 kilometers under Gaindakot-Ramdi-Maldhunga under the Kaligandaki Corridor. In addition, the contract management of 53 kilometers of Mirmi-Setiveni-Phalebas-Armadi in the name of Kaligandaki Highway in the Parbat section is in the process of being completed. In addition, he said that no decision has been taken yet on the remaining 300 meters of contract management for blacktopping near Ramdi in Palpa under the corridor. 96 percent of the work on the 21-kilometer road of Ridi-Rudraveni-Harmichaur in Gulmi under the corridor has been completed. ‘It cannot be said that it is complete as some work is pending,’ he said, ‘the work on this section has been completed.’ Apart from this, 43 percent of the work on Ramdi Ranimahal has been completed. 10 kilometers of Balewa-Maldhunga in Baglung are yet to be blacktopped.
10 kilometers of Mirmi-Setiveni work on the Syangja-Parbat section of the Kaligandaki Highway are yet to be blacktopped. The contract for 14 kilometers of Armadi-Phalebas of the same section has been awarded. He said that 21 kilometers out of 72 kilometers have been completed in the final phase. The total cost of the Maldhunga-Ramdi-Gandakot corridor is Rs 20 billion. So far, Rs 14.35 billion has been spent. The Project Office, Palpa, has stated that 71.75 percent financial and 79.90 percent physical progress has been made till Chaitra.
145.90 kilometers of road have been handed over to the Road Division Office under the project. 67.93 kilometers of Pipaldanda-Gaidakot have been handed over to the Palpa Road Division and 77.97 kilometers to the Bharatpur Road Division of Chitwan.
The target of blacktopping 20 kilometers in the current fiscal year has been achieved, but only 3 kilometers have been achieved. According to Corridor Project Chief Dahal, contractors are unable to manage cash flow due to price increases. Currently, 72 kilometers of road upgrade are under contract in this project.
131 kilometers of Gaindakot-Pipaldanda, 14 kilometers of Ranimahal-Argali, 31 kilometers of Setiveni-Phalebas, and 44 kilometers of Harmichaur-Balewa roads under the corridor project have been blacktopped.
21 kilometers of Ridi-Rudraveni-Harmichaur are in the final stages. The Kaligandaki Corridor (Gaidakot-Ramdi-Maldhunga) road is an important road connecting the north and south. The corridor is being constructed from the banks of the Kaligandaki River from Gaindakot in Nawalpur to Korala border crossing in Mustang. The total length is about 495 kilometers. This road, which has economic, social, cultural, touristic and religious importance, is expected to play an important role in the trade received from the two neighboring friendly countries, India and China, and the transit trade received by the country.
The government had formally established a planning office in the fiscal year 2067/068 and took forward the construction work of the project. Since 2075 BS, the project has been further advanced in a systematic and robust manner by converting it into a national pride project. For systematic construction, two offices have been established in Palpa for the Kaligandaki Corridor (Gandakot-Ramdi-Maldhunga) Road Project and Jomsom-Mustang for the Kaligandaki Corridor (Maldhunga-Beni-Jomsom-Korla) Road Project. According to project chief Dahal, the progress of the work has been affected due to the problem of easy availability of river-based materials. He said that the recent increase in fuel prices has caused problems in the construction business. ‘If there is a problem of excessive load on vehicles, there is a risk of the existing bailey bridges collapsing,’ he said, ‘which can lead to the problem of the road deteriorating quickly.’ According to him, the jurisdiction of the road has not been determined yet, which could lead to additional problems. He said that the inability to manage technical manpower according to the posts in the corridor planning office has led to difficulties in monitoring and supervising the construction work. There are landslide problems in about 15 places, both small and large, under the corridor. He said that the work of studying this and preparing a detailed project report (DPR) and rehabilitating the road is still pending.
