Since 14 Chaitra, the BP Highway has been repeatedly blocked due to normal rainfall. The 8-kilometer road in this section has been built by diverting the river. Due to which, when the temporary diversion built in the Roshi River floods, traffic is disrupted. The flood has caused damage from Chowkidanda to Barkhe River in this section. The most problematic areas are Katunjebensi, Charsay Besi, Narke, Chiuribas, Boksikuna, Kaldhunga, and Piple.

The work of closing and opening the road after the temporary diversion built in the river is washed away by the flood has been going on for some time, said Suman Yogesh, Chief of the Road Division Office, Bhaktapur. ‘Wherever the road was washed away by the flood, work is being done on the upper section of the same place,’ he said, ‘Until this structure is built, there has been a problem with the diversion of the river and driving vehicles due to the flood.’ He said that work is being done to drive vehicles on the road during the monsoon.

After the flood washed away the temporary diversion, the company that took the road construction contract is doing the work of rebuilding and bringing it into operation in the same section, and there will be no additional financial burden on the state, said the Road Division Office, Bhaktapur. So what is the alternative if the BP Highway is washed away by the flood? Chief Suman Yogesh gives a simple answer to this - Pushpalal (Mid-Hill) Highway.

After the flood in Asoj 2081 washed away the BP Rajmarg, Pushpalal (Mid-Hill) is being built as an alternative route connecting the east to the capital Kathmandu. Vehicles going to Ramechhap, Okhaldhunga, Solukhumbu, Khotang and eastern Terai have been using the Pushpalal Marg since the highway was blocked. This route has been put into operation to ease movement in the capital after the flood washed away the BP Highway. Ambulances carrying essential goods and patients and passenger buses have been using this route as an alternative. Freight vehicles also often ply this route.

A new track has been dug after the Tamakoshi River washed away 400 meters of the Pushpalal Marg near the power house of the Khimti Hydropower Center in Kirnetar, Tamakoshi Rural Municipality-5, in the flood of 12 Asoj 2001. The road division office, Sindhuli, has awarded a contract worth Rs 190 million to restore the 1.2 kilometers of the road damaged by the flood and landslide to its original condition. The pace of work is slow. As a result, the road is currently being constructed in the same area where the Khimti Hydropower Center office is located. The construction of the Khimti Power Center road can be completed by diverting the Tamakoshi River before the monsoon season, said Surdashan Upreti, Information Officer of the Road Division Office, Sindhuli.

Work is being done to prevent the Pushpalal Marg, which is an alternative to BP, from being blocked. The road with embankments is being constructed in the Khimti section before the monsoon. We have asked the construction company to arrange machinery in other places so that it is not blocked and to open it immediately if it happens.  - Surdashan Upreti, Road Division Office, Sindhuli ‘Work is being done to prevent the Pushpalal Marg, which is BP’s alternative, from being blocked,’ he said, ‘The road with embankment will be constructed in the Khimti section before the monsoon season. We have asked the construction company to arrange machinery in other places so that it will not be blocked and if it does happen, it will be opened immediately.’ Manthali in Ramechhap is reached in 17 kilometers from Khurkot. Tamakoshi is reached in 35 kilometers from Manthali. Charikot in Dolakha is reached in 17 kilometers from Tamakoshi. After covering a distance of 55 kilometers from Charikot, the Araniko Highway is found in Khadichaur in Sindhupalchowk. After crossing 78 kilometers from there, it reaches Kathmandu.

There is a two-lane blacktop road from Khurkot to Tamakoshi and from Tamakoshi to Kathmandu. After passing through this route and the Sitkha motorable bridge connecting Sindhuli, an alternative road to Manthali has been opened after crossing about 34 kilometers of the road through Khandadevi Rural Municipality. Narayan Dutta Bhandari, Chief of the Road Division Office, Charikot, said that this road has been used as an alternative for long journeys.

From Manthali, the Pushpalal Marg connects to Dolakha's Charikot and then to Kathmandu via the Araniko Highway. 'A contract worth Rs 130 million has been awarded for road repairs in flood-damaged areas, and the work is satisfactory,' he said. He said that since there is a general problem in Kalidaha on the Tamakoshi-Manthali road section, a detailed project report (DPR) for that has also been prepared. Before the opening of the BP Highway, locals in the area used to travel on this road.

After the flood damaged the bridge in Khurkot, there is an alternative road from Khurkot to Manthali after crossing the Sitkha motorable bridge connecting Ramechhap and Sindhuli via Khandadevi Rural Municipality, about 34 kilometers away. When using the Pushpalal Marg, drivers should pay attention to speed as it is a double lane, said Thakur Prasad Bhattarai, Chief of the District Traffic Police Office, Dolakha.

The flood of Asoj 2081 caused more damage to the 30.5 km area from Bhakundebensi to Nepalthok along the BP Highway, which has been open for traffic since Asar. Apart from the 3.2 km of the damaged highway, work is underway on a 27.3 km section. Three packages have been signed for Kavre and one for Sindhuli. The two-lane road is currently being constructed. Lama-Nawakantipur JV has won the contract for the 11 km section of the highway from Bhakundebensi to Charsaybensi for Rs 1.14 billion. The contract for the 9 km section from Charsaybensi to Dalabesi has been signed with Khani-Kamaljit-Awan JV for Rs 1.22 billion excluding VAT. Both contracts were signed in Asar 2082.
The contract for the 2.3 km section from Piple to Dalabesi was signed with Uma & Company-Bhandari-Amarjyoti JV in Kartik 2082. The contract amount for this section is Rs 688 million. JICA will construct a 3.2 km road from Piple to Barkhekhola. The road construction in this section is being done with a grant of Rs 2.63 billion from the Japanese government.

The work has not been completed yet. The Road Division Bhaktapur is working on this section too to prevent problems during the monsoon. The 5 km section from Barkhekhola to Nepalthok falls in Sindhuli. The contract for this section has been taken by Kharidhunga-Ghising-Kshitij JV. Its contract amount is Rs 550 million excluding VAT. The work on all sections should be completed within two years from the date of the agreement.

Suman Yogesh, Chief of the Road Division Office, Bhaktapur, said that work has been underway to ply vehicles on the road that is currently under construction since Asad 1. ‘During the monsoon, vehicles will not have to ply on the river,’ he said. ‘Out of the 25 km distance, about 8 km of diversion has been made on the river and vehicles are plying.’ More than 4,000 vehicles ply on this highway daily.

After the recent rains, the BP Highway has been blocked and vehicle movement has been affected, a team led by Ashish Gajurel, Chairman of the Infrastructure Development Committee under the House of Representatives, returned on Wednesday after conducting an on-site monitoring of the road that was affected by the flood. "Work is being done to allow vehicles to travel on the road during the monsoon. Since the black paper road is not built before the monsoon, travel will not be that easy if it is being built, but it was seen that vehicle movement will not be stopped during the monsoon," he said. "The work is going well and the machines were used adequately at the construction site."