Myagdi. The Beni-Arthunge-Toripani-Pakhapani road project, which has allocated the highest budget by Beni Municipality in the current fiscal year, has been completed three months ahead of schedule.
The road is a priority project focused on wards Beni-5, 6, 9, 10 and Raghuganga Rural Municipality-5, 6 and 8 through a complementary grant of Rs 15 million from the federal government and a budget allocation of Rs 15 million from Beni Municipality.
While some projects are being delayed due to budget shortage, economic crisis, price increase in construction materials, and social problems, the construction company has stated that the Beni-Arthunge-Toripani section was completed in three months, despite the target of completing it in six months. .
The project, for which the Bikesh-Dupcheshwor-Subham JV signed a contract on December 19 for Rs 20.9 million, was targeted to be completed by June 25. A team of local people’s representatives, technicians, and employees, led by Deputy Mayor Jyoti Lamichhane, who is also the coordinator of the monitoring committee of Beni Municipality, monitored the project on Tuesday.
‘The construction company has constructed the structure for road upgrading as per the agreement,’ said Deputy Mayor Lamichhane. ‘The slope on the road and drain was done with the help of equipment. While testing its sample, we found that the work was done using quality materials.’
Deputy Mayor Lamichhane informed that a contract has recently been called for additional work worth Rs. 2 million remaining from the first phase contract.
Through the said project, work has been done on a 908-meter road at the entry point of the Beni-Pakhapani road, Ratopahiro, Githini and the border of Beni Municipality-9 and 10, including cutting walls, clearing landslides and widening them, constructing retaining walls and drains and installing slopes, according to Sudip Gautam, engineer of the municipality.
According to him, slopes, drains, After filling the gabion mesh, constructing the palisade and machinery walls, road travel has become easier and safer. Engineer Gautam mentioned that Subash Chandra Karki, the operator of the construction company, mobilized sufficient laborers immediately after the agreement and managed equipment and construction materials as needed, completing the work ahead of schedule.
This road, whose track was opened by the then District Development Committee in 2056 BS, has been sloped and blacktopped for about six kilometers from Beni to Kirakhor through the municipality. The Infrastructure Development Office has been operating the project since last year under the provincial government’s budget for the upgrading of a four-km road from Kirakhor via Neptchaur to Galeshwor Secondary School in Toripani.
Beni Municipality has started upgrading the alternative section of the Beni Pakhapani road from the ward office of Neptchaur via Githini to Patlekhet, informed Mayor Surat KC. He said that facilitation and coordination have been provided to effectively implement the Beni-Pakhapani road project, which is a priority for the district.
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