PALPA, Jan 24: The under-construction Siddhababa tunnel along the Siddhartha Highway has achieved a breakthrough at the Dobhan-Siddhababa area of Tinau Rural Municipality-3 in Palpa district.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli announced the breakthrough of the tunnel in a virtual address on Friday. PM Oli was scheduled to announce the breakthrough at the project site but made the virtual announcement due to his health issues.
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Deputy Prime Minister and Urban Development Minister Prakash Man Singh, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel, Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Devendra Dahal, Secretary of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Keshav Kumar Sharma, among others, were present at the breakthrough program.
According to the Siddhababa Tunnel Project Office, physical progress has reached 40.18 percent and financial progress has reached 39.90 percent at the time of breakthrough. The project has spent approximately Rs 3 billion on the construction of the tunnel so far.
Project Chief Krishna Raj Adhikari confirmed that the construction of the tunnel which is1,089-meter-long 10.5 meters wide with double lanes and 7 meters high has been completed under the project.
