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Myagdi. Hari Prasad Tilija of Bagar, Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality-4, Myagdi, used to have to walk all day to reach Darwang, the center of the nearby market Malika Rural Municipality.
‘I used to have to walk all day to reach Darwang, Mudi ward and Muna rural municipality office for shopping’, he said, who is also a ward member, ‘The problem of having to pay expensive tolls while transporting daily necessities and construction materials through mules and porters and having to charter a helicopter to reach the hospital in emergencies has been eliminated with the convenience of road transport.’
Residents of Bagar, Simkosh, as well as Chechung and Khiwang villages, which are geographically remote and remote, have started reaching Darwang, Mudi and Muna within an hour by car. The road reached Bagar, the last human settlement on the trekking route to Dhaulagiri Base Camp, last week.
Dhaulagiri Rural Municipality Chairman Prem Prasad Pun said that the access road to the under-construction hydropower project and the road built through the social responsibility program have provided convenience to the locals.
The 65 MW Myagdi Khola, 37 MW Upper Myagdi and 53.5 MW Upper Myagdi-1 Hydropower Projects under construction in Dhaulagiri Rural Municipality-4 have constructed a 15-kilometer access road from Shivaratri Khola to Bagar in Malika Rural Municipality-7.
‘With the hydropower project, the remote “Transportation facilities have been introduced in the villages,” he said, “It would have taken years to build roads by cutting through steep cliffs and mountains with a limited government budget. With the introduction of hydropower projects, road transport access has expanded rapidly.”
The 37-megawatt Upper Myagdi Hydropower Project, promoted by Hydro Empire Pvt. Ltd., had completed the construction of a five-kilometer road connecting Naura to Chechung last month by deploying dozers for about two months as per the demand of the locals under the social responsibility program.
There are 19 households in Chechuwa. The project has installed a 36-meter-long bailey bridge over the Myagdi River in Naura, Chechung.
Hydro Village, which has installed a 36-meter-long bailey bridge over the Myagdi River in Naura in partnership with the 65-megawatt Myagdikhola Hydropower Project, is preparing to build another bailey bridge at the dam construction site in Simkos Dobhan with its sole investment.
Earlier last year, a three-kilometer road was constructed connecting Lamochhara Kenki to Khiwang in Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality-4 through cost sharing of three hydropower projects under construction on the Myagdi River. Khiwang is home to 180 households.
After installing a hume pipe in Myagdi and Gurjakhola at the dam construction site of the Upper Myagdi-1 Hydropower Project, the residents of Khiwang, Naura, Chechung, Bagar, Khamla, Khara, Basbot, and Chhahari no longer have to use a two-hour winding road or walk to reach the ward and rural municipality offices in Mudi during the winter, said Ward Chairman Yam Bahadur Gharti.
Jeep, tractor, and motorcycle have started plying on the road. Three hydropower projects have been started and five are under construction in Myagdi, Gurja, and Darkhola, which flow through Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality. Most of the construction sites fall within the geography of Ward No. 4.
Reshma Bahadur Jugjali, a member of the Gandaki Provincial Assembly elected from Myagdi 1(B) and former minister who reached Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality-4 Bagar on Sunday, said that he would coordinate with the hydropower projects to ensure regular and safe traffic operation on the constructed roads.
He instructed the promoters of the hydropower projects to solve the problem of dust on the roads. He said that the construction of a 25-meter-long motorable bridge has begun with the investment of the Gandaki Province government on the Shivaratri River in Malika Rural Municipality-7 under the road connecting Darwang-Bim-Takam-Muna-Dhorpatan and Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality-4.
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