{"id":35548,"date":"2025-11-17T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35548"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:27:47","slug":"upgrading-of-siddicharan-highway-begins-soon-minister-ghising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/upgrading-of-siddicharan-highway-begins-soon-minister-ghising\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading of Siddicharan Highway begins soon: Minister Ghising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Katari, Nov 17: Minister for Physical Infrastructures and Transport, Kulman Ghising, has informed that upgrading of the Siddicharan Highway would begin soon.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Ghising assured of road upgrading while receiving a memorandum submitted by the Katari-Ghurmi road struggle committee. He assured of multi-year contract within a month for the upgrading of the Highway.<\/p>\n<p>The Katari-Ghurmi stretch has been worn out, creating sheer inconvenience to the passengers and vehicles alike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve also traveled through its road, and am of aware the problems. I&#8217;ll immediately direct the subordinates to forward upgrading it,&#8221; Minister added.<\/p>\n<p>This information was shared by the struggle committee coordinator Leela Bahadur Khatri. It was also shared that Rs 4.12 billion was allocated for the reconstruction of this Highway. The Katari-Ghurmi section, which is a 47-km stretch, of the Highway is full of defects, prompting the locals to block the roadway in a bid to exert pressure on the authorities concerned for timely repair.<\/p>\n<p>The roadway full of defects has also created hassles to the travelers from Okhaldhunga, Solukhumbu and Khotang district.<\/p>\n<p>The Highway had come into operation three decades back, linking the upper Sagarmatha districts to the southern plains. It is one of the shortest routes to link country&#8217;s hill to Tarai in the eastern belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katari, Nov 17: Minister for Physical Infrastructures and Transport, Kulman Ghising, has informed that upgrading of the Siddicharan Highway would begin soon. Minister Ghising assured of road upgrading while receiving a memorandum submitted by the Katari-Ghurmi road struggle committee. He assured of multi-year contract within a month for the upgrading of the Highway. The Katari-Ghurmi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35548"}],"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=35548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35549,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35548\/revisions\/35549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}