{"id":3342,"date":"2024-06-10T09:07:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T03:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2024-06-10T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:37:24","slug":"beni-jomsom-korala-road-sees-80-percent-physical-progress-in-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/beni-jomsom-korala-road-sees-80-percent-physical-progress-in-eight-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Beni-Jomsom-Korala road sees 80 percent physical progress in eight years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Myagdi, June 10: The Beni-Jomsom-Korala road project under the Kaligandaki corridor has seen 80 percent of physical progress in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>The road infrastructure connecting Triveni along Nepal-India border with China&#8217;s Korala border point is considered the &#8216;fate line&#8217; of Gandaki province, which is important for infrastructure, economic, trade, hydropower, tourism and religious development.<\/p>\n<p>The project had started in 2073 BS to upgrade the 202-km road from Maldhunga (Parbat) to Korala border point (Mustang) via Myagdi and construct bridges over the rivulets along the road.<br \/>\nProject Chief Dhruba Kumar Jha informed physical progress of the project till the mid second week of June was 80 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The road, estimated to cost Rs 10 billion, was targeted to be completed in the fiscal year 2079\/80 BS. The project period has been extended till the fiscal year 2082\/83 BS when the targeted works could not be completed within the stipulated time.<\/p>\n<p>According to project chief Jha, Rs 6 billion has been spent so far against the contract of Rs 7 billion for the construction of roads and bridges. &#8220;Out of the target of blacktopping 105 kilometers, 48 kms have been blacktopped,. Five kilometers have been cemented and gravelling has been done along 85 kilometers of the road&#8221;, he informed.<\/p>\n<p>Among 24 motorable bridges to be constructed along the road, contracts have been awarded for 19 bridges, he shared. &#8220;Construction of 10 bridges has been completed, five are in progress &#8220;, he said, adding contracts for four bridges have been terminated while contracts are yet to be made for five bridges&#8221;. &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myagdi, June 10: The Beni-Jomsom-Korala road project under the Kaligandaki corridor has seen 80 percent of physical progress in eight years. The road infrastructure connecting Triveni along Nepal-India border with China&#8217;s Korala border point is considered the &#8216;fate line&#8217; of Gandaki province, which is important for infrastructure, economic, trade, hydropower, tourism and religious development. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}