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Humla connected by road network
KATHMANDU, July 6-- Beautiful Humla is set to be connected to the national road network starting today. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is traveling to Humla to inaugurate a newly built bridge.
PM Oli is visiting Humla to inaugurate a Bailey bridge constructed over the Chuwa River in Kharpunath-5 along the Karnali Corridor. According to Keshav Kumar Sharma, Secretary at the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, the inauguration will take place at 10 AM today.
Simkot, the district headquarters of Humla, is the only one among Nepal’s 77 districts that had yet to be officially linked to the national road network. Although construction work had been ongoing for 26 years, Simkot had not been formally connected until now. With the inauguration of this bridge, the 26-year wait of the people of Humla will finally come to an end.
Earlier, Prime Minister Oli had shared a social media post stating, “Humla is no longer far away,” noting that his decades-old dream of expanding the road network to Humla was being fulfilled. Accordingly, he is scheduled to visit Humla today.
“The 26-year-long dream of connecting Simkot, the district headquarters of Humla, to the national road network is about to come true,” the Prime Minister wrote. “Once this road becomes operational, Nepal will be connected to our friendly neighbor China through the Hilsa border point.”
