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Kathmandu. It has been agreed to immediately proceed with the stalled construction work of the Majhagaun Airport in Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur.
A high-level meeting held at the Ministry of Home Affairs today, including ministers, secretaries, and the Chief of Army Staff of the Nepal Army, agreed to proceed with the construction of the Majhagaun Airport.
The meeting agreed to use 6 bighas of land in the name of the Nepali Army, which is deployed to protect the Shuklaphanta National Park, for the construction of the airport, and to build the army’s football field and the military residential building in the park area. After agreeing to proceed with the construction of the airport, which has been stalled for a long time, the agreement was reached.
Home Minister The author urged that the issue of airport construction be resolved as it has been pending for a long time.
On that occasion, Minister for Forest and Environment Ain Bahadur Shahi Thakuri, Minister for Defense Manbir Rai, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Badri Prasad Pandey, Minister of State for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Purna Bahadur Tamang, Chief of Army Staff of the Nepal Army Ashok Raj Sigdel, Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority Pradeep Adhikari and other secretaries of the ministries expressed their views.
A contract for the reconstruction of the airport was signed in Magh 2078 BS. Currently, the work of blacktopping 1,300 meters of the airport’s runway has reached the final stage.
The construction work had been affected due to the failure to reach an agreement on the airport’s acquisition of 6 bighas of land belonging to the army to the south of the airport during the expansion. Home Minister Lekhak informed that it was agreed to send a team including all the participating agencies to Mahendranagar and to immediately start the construction of the runway.
‘Before this, discussions were held at different stages for agreement and a solution,’ he said. ‘Today’s agreement has determined that the airport construction work will move forward.’
It has been agreed to conduct an environmental impact assessment of the land in the forest area during the construction of the airport. “The work will proceed immediately as the army has agreed to the land (football field and housing) required for the airport,” said Home Minister Lekhak.
In the meeting, Army Chief Sigdel said that there was no disagreement if the army’s land was used for the construction of the airport, and that the football field that would be encroached upon should be built on the vacant land in the park area and that housing should be built.
Regarding the army’s demands, the ministers and officials of the relevant ministries said that they were positive about the military structure and the football field. Home Minister Lekhak had been facilitating the construction of Majhagaon Airport for a long time.
The construction work has been taken forward with an investment of 15 percent from Bhimdatta Municipality, 10 percent from Dodhara-Chandani Municipality, 25 percent from the Sudurpaschim Province Government, and 50 percent from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal to complete the construction of the airport within three years.
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