Kathmandu, Nov 3: The Ministry of Energy, Water Resources, and Irrigation has reported 34.9 per cent progress in river control in the first quarter of the current fiscal year.
According to Rabindra Bahadur Thapa, the head of the River and Water-Induced Disaster Management Department under the ministry, a budget of Rs 5 billion 209 million was allocated for the programme in the current fiscal year.
Out of the Rs 627.4 million budget allocated for the first quarter, Rs 147 million has been spent, which is 23.4 per cent of the quarterly budget. During the same period, there has been 34.9 per cent weighted physical progress compared to the quarterly target.
During that period, the head of the department, Thapa, mentioned that 2.9 kilometres of embankment were built and one hectare of land was reclaimed. According to him, some projects have done significantly more work than the quarterly targets.
The Irrigation and Water Resources Management Project, Bharatpur (Chitwan) has achieved 160.8 per cent of its quarterly physical target. The Tar-Bazar protection programme has achieved 108 per cent progress of its target.
The Department stated that Lamahi (Dang) has achieved 86.5 per cent, Kanchanpur 82.5 per cent, and Janakpur (Dhanusha) 82.3 per cent physical progress.
