A PAC meeting Thursday made the decision as majority members of the committee said it would be a gross misuse of state´s funds to invest in such bridges that need to be demolished while widening the roads. [break]
The governments of Nepal and China have already signed an agreement to widen the ring road to make it eight-lane road.
Lawmakers at the meeting fiercely criticized the government for not implementing the PAC´s previous instruction to demolish the Kalanki construction. The PAC had on three occasions issued similar directives to the government.
"It has been found that the government has not implemented the PAC´s previous directives to demolish the under-construction bridges. Therefore, this meeting hereby instructs the government to implement this directive and inform the committee within the next 15 days," the committee´s chairman Ram Krishna Yadav read out the decision at the meeting.
The parliamentary committee took the decision after listening views from Minister for Local Development Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and Minister for Physical Planning and Works Hridayesh Tripathi and top officials from both the ministries and the Kathmandu Metropolitan Office.
Nepali Congress (NC) lawmakers Deep Kumar Upadhyay and Tulasi Subba, however, were against issuing such a directive saying that it would be injustice to the construction company to demolish the constructions as the company has already invested huge money for that.
UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and then prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal laid foundation stones of the bridges at Kalanki and New Baneshwar respectively.
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