'Delegation' for two years to move the unused belay bridge

Belibridge will be moved to 17 municipalities including 4 municipalities in Bajura and 13 municipalities in Kalikot, Humla and Mugu.

Poush 6, 2081

Arjun Shah

'Delegation' for two years to move the unused belay bridge

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After the construction of a concrete bridge two years ago, the Beilibridge is not in use on the Budhiganga River at Jadanga on the Sanfe-Martadi road section of Bajura. Two years have passed since the local people's representatives started lobbying the provincial and federal government agencies to move the Belybridge to the Dansanghu river in Kolti, Bajura, but no hearing has been done.

By shifting the Belybridge to Dansanghu in Kolti, 17 municipalities including Budhinanda, Swamikartik, Himali and Jagannath, 4 municipalities in Bajura and 13 municipalities in Kalikot, Humla and Mugu would have road facilities. People's representatives say that the residents of Kunda area of ​​Bajura and Karnali area connected to it should not die due to the inconvenience of transportation. They say that if the bridges are broken, the daily consumption goods that are expensive will be cheaper if the traders transport them to Khachchad.

"It has been two years since the concerned leaders, ministers, secretaries, heads of divisions of the union from the state started making delegations without missing a single person," Budhinanda Nagar chief Janak Kumar Bohra said, "In Kathmandu, high-ranking officials and those in power None of the leaders care about the suffering of the residents of remote areas.''

Badri Prasad Pandey, member of the House of Representatives representing Bajura and current Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation, head of administration, district coordination committee, heads of all nine municipalities, representatives of all political parties held a meeting in Kolti last January in conjunction with Budhinanda. was The meeting decided to take a joint initiative to shift the Belibridge of Jadanga to Dansanghu. In the same month, the all-party meeting held in the district administration also decided to request the provincial government to move Belibridge.

Budhinanda Nagar Chief Bohra says that he has made several delegations to the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport and the Road Department of the Union Government. We met the then Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Raghuveer Mahaseth, Prakash Jwala and the current Minister Devendra Dahal and submitted the request letter several times. From then to the present secretary of the ministry, the director general of the road department, the head of the bridge division, we have been appealing to everyone," said Bohra, "but no one has listened." He said that even though federalism came, there was no sense of federalism in the development of Bajura. Naresh Kumar Shahi, the provincial parliamentarian and former economic affairs minister representing Bajura, informed that the belay bridge under the federal road cannot be used until it is handed over to the province. In May 2008, the provincial government tried to move Beilibridge to Dansanghu by managing the budget. The problem is because the union did not work," he said.

UML central member Sahdev Bogti said that even though the local people's representatives together with him have met three times before the Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Dahal, no decision has been reached. Netra Devkota, head of the Sanfe-Martadi road division office, the agency that manages the belibridge, admitted that the belibridge, which had to be moved earlier, was stuck. There is frequent demand from the district. We cannot do anything until the money comes from above," Devkota said. "We have already estimated the cost twice and submitted it to the department. There is no decision yet.' He informed that it will cost around 3 crores to connect Beilibridge Colty with donations.

Tourism Minister Pandey said that he had repeatedly spoken to the Physical Infrastructure Minister, but nothing worked. "Belibridge is an example of how much we have been stuck in the process, how complicated it is to get results because of the process," Minister Pandey, who came to the home district last week, said, "Again, where should the Finance Minister and the Finance Minister be told?" Yes, I think so.'

Arjun

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