Durgamaya Tamang of Udaipur, two months pregnant, basked in the Tantalapur afternoon sun, walked up and down the Roshi river for 5 hours and reached Chowkidanda on the border of Namobuddha and Roshi Rural Municipality. She had walked from Roshi's Khyangdanda at 9 o'clock in the morning. "The road is not blocked by the flood, we reached Chowkidanda in 5 hours, the road from here is good, now we can reach Kathmandu in one or two hours by car!" she said.

Durgamaya, who reached Maiti in Khyangdanda on October 14 to celebrate Dasain, was stopped on her way back to Kathmandu due to rain since the night of October 17. Due to the incessant rain, the highway was blocked and the traffic was stopped . But Durgamaya took her two-month-old child and left on Monday to go to Kathmandu on foot. ``It seemed like it would take many days for the road to open, but we walked,'' she said when met at Chowkidanda. After the BP highway was cut by Roshi Khola, he also reached here by walking from Mangaltar. "The road is completely damaged, since it is not decided when it will be opened, I have been walking since 8 o'clock in the morning to reach Kathmandu," he added.

'There is no road, the river has risen,' said Santoshi Lama of another Roshi-5 who came on foot, 'It was difficult to reach the river by walking, it is very difficult for an elderly mother with children to walk.' But since Roshi Khola has completely closed the highway and it may take many days to open it, they are on their way to their destination.

Engineer Durga Prasad of Road Division Office Bhaktapur informed that the continuous rain since the night of October 17 has caused a lot of damage on the Bhakunde-Nepalthok road section of the BP highway. According to him, Roshi Khola has damaged 17 places of that section under BP highway. Durga Prasad said, "Last year, the flood that occurred in the second week of October caused more damage, this year too, more damage has been done there. "The temporary repair diversion has been swept away by the flood, about 4 km of the BP highway has been completely damaged." Tell . According to him, the repairs will have to be started again from scratch at these places. He also said that preparations are being made to resume traffic as soon as possible. "The flow of water in Roshi Khol has not reduced," he said, "that's why there is difficulty in the repair work." However, since Monday, the repair work has been started from Chowkidanda, the border area of ​​Namobuddha Municipality and Roshi Rural Municipality. Thousands of passengers have been affected due to the blocking of the BP highway connecting the eastern border of Nepal.

Construction of the track of the highway washed away by Roshi

Due to the incessant rains on October 10, 11 and 12 of last year, the road of 100 km from Kavre, Bhakundebesi to Nepalthok was damaged by the Roshi river. Less than a year after it was put into operation after temporary repairs, the rain caused damage again on October 17 and 18.

The road cut by Roshi Khola near Dumja police station in Nepalthok-Dhulikhel section under BP highway has been opened from Monday. Roshi Khola has been diverted to the east and the track has been started. From Nepalthok to Barkhekhola, about 600 meters of Roshi river has flowed towards Sindhuli. According to Parasmani Hamal, Head of Divisional Road Office Khalte, after the opening of this track, the traffic will resume up to Mamti in Kavre . He also said that three sections of BP Highway, Dhulikhel, Sindhuli-Bardibas road are in operation. Hamal said that traffic on 110 kilometers of roads is normal and 50 kilometers are under reconstruction.

Vehicles from Koshi and Madhesh are heading towards Kathmandu through Pushpalal Marg

1800 small vehicles are heading towards Kathmandu by 2 pm on Monday using Pushpalal Marg, which has been used as an alternative road to the BP highway. According to the police, more than 19,000 passengers have entered Kathmandu by those vehicles. Since Monday morning, traffic has increased on Pushpalal Marg. From Saturday afternoon, instead of BP highway, vehicles have started using Pushpalal Marg to take passengers to the capital. He said that more than 33 thousand passengers traveled through Pushpalal Marg in three days.

Deputy Superintendent of Police of Dolakha Gyan Kumar Mahato said that the district traffic police office and police have been deployed for the convenience of vehicles and passengers on the highway after the increase in traffic. After the BP highway was blocked by floods and landslides, the small and big vehicles left from Solukhumbu, Okhaldhunga, Khotang, Udaipur, Ramechhap etc. are going to the capital using the Arani highway from Manthali Charikot via Pushpalal Marg.

The road from Nagadhunga to Mugling will be operational from Monday

Due to the continuous rain since last Friday, the Dhading section, which is the gateway to the federal capital, has also been completely affected . The 90 km stretch of Prithvi Highway connecting the 67 districts of the country with the federal capital Kathmandu from Mugling to Tribhuvan Rajpath's Nagadhunga road was completely blocked on Friday and Saturday due to small landslides at 22 places.

The landslide that fell in the Jawang river on the Malekhu-Mugling road section on Friday was cleared at night, but the Jawang river section remained closed the whole day after another landslide. Under this section, Pani Dhara near Mugling, Ghoptevir, Jawang Khola Jamireghat near Dhadingpatti were completely blocked by a landslide. On the other hand, due to landslides in Ghatbesi, Chiraundi, Jahrekhet, Mahadevbesi of Malekhu-Nagadhunga road section, traffic was blocked from Friday to Monday afternoon. Since Monday afternoon, the road section from Nagadhunga to Mugling is running smoothly. This road section is under construction. Keshav Devkota, engineer of the eastern section of the Nagadhunga-Mugling road project, said that although the highway has been blocked several times due to landslides in this road section, which has been divided into three sections, the rains since Friday did not cause any other damage. Among those under construction, 43.5 percent of Nagadhunga-Naubise-Malekhu section and 34.5 percent of Malekhu-Mugling road section have progressed .

All roads connecting Hetaunda-Kathmandu are operational

All the roads connecting Hetaunda-Kathmandu, which were blocked due to the incessant rains on October 17 and 18, have been fully operational since Monday .

The Tribhuvan Rajpath and Hetaunda-Kulekhani-Farping road section, which did not create any obstacles even during the rainy season, were put into operation from Sunday morning . Hetaunda-Kulekhani-Sisneri road, which was blocked due to the increase in river flow in Indrasarobar-4, Sisneri, has been operational from Monday morning and Kanti Lokpath from afternoon .

Passengers from most of the Terai districts including Makwanpur use Hetaunda-Fakhel and Hetaunda-Sisneri (short distance) route. Passengers commuting between Hetaunda and Kathmandu were facing problems during Dasain when these road sections were blocked.