BHARATPUR, Oct 27: The construction of the road from Sahidchowk in Narayanghat to Baikunthchowk, Dharmachowk and reaching Kachapchechowk has been stalled as the contractor company delayed the construction making various excuses.
The deadline for road construction has been extended thrice in four years. During this period, only 75 percent of road construction work has been completed. Ranjan Thakur, project manager of the construction company Raman Shivshakti JV, said that the rest of the road construction work will be completed within mid-November. He said, “The work of the drain and subbase has been completed. Now the road will be black-topped. It will take one or two weeks.”
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The JV has received a deadline of April 8, 2023 from the Government of Nepal. Thakur said that there is no need to wait for April now as only a 480 meters long section of the road is left to be built. The contract for the construction of the road, which is about 3.1 km, was signed on May 9, 2018.
This is one of the seven plans under the Blacktopped Road and Sewer Construction Package No 2 under the Intensive Urban Development Program for which an agreement was made for Rs 682.3 million.
Engineer Pujan Neupane of the Urban Development Office said that the contract amount for the road from Sahidchok to Baikunthchok, Dharmachok and Kachapchechok is Rs 713.8 million He said that the office has yet to pay Rs 210 million.
