Kaski. The electricity poles that are within the road standards of the western section of the under-construction Pokhara-Muglin Highway are to be removed within a week. Of the 424 poles that remain to be removed on the western section of the highway, only 355 are in Kaski district.
These poles are located within the Pokhara and Lekhnath distribution areas of the Nepal Electricity Authority. The work of the project has been affected due to the delay in removing the electricity poles that were stuck inside the road during the highway upgrade.
After the work was affected due to the electricity poles, the Electricity Authority agreed to remove the poles within a week, said Krishna Bahadur Kunbar, Planning Chief of the Muglin-Pokhara Road Project West Section, in a facilitation meeting held on Sunday in coordination with the District Administration Office, Kaski.
According to him, after the work of the project was affected due to the electricity poles, the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers has also expressed concern about it and has facilitated a solution.
‘The Authority is removing the poles that were stuck inside the four-lane road. Now, it has been agreed that the remaining poles will be removed within a week. This will solve the major problem seen in the work.’ Plan Chief Kunbar said.
According to the plan, 67 poles, including 18 from Sainik Basti-Vishwadyalaya and 49 from Adarsh Chowk-Tal Chowk, which are located within the four-lane road in the Kaski section, have caused problems in moving forward with the work in this area. Similarly, 90 poles have fallen into the drain from the tip of the mountain to Bijaypur. The western section of the Muglin-Pokhara road is 41 km from Jamune in Tanahun to Prithvi Chowk Seti Bridge in Pokhara.
It is said that the first layer of blacktop work has been completed on 35 km, 700 meters of one-way road in this section so far. The planning office has reported that 50.34 percent physical progress has been made so far.
‘The work of two-way blacktop (four lanes) in the 19 km section and one-way blacktop (two lanes) in the 16 km section has been completed. Construction contractors have been mobilized with the goal of completing the construction of four lanes in the entire section by mid-Ashar,’ said Planning Chief Kunwar.
The deadline for the western section of the Muglin-Pokhara road was extended by one year after it expired last year. The extended time is until the second week of the upcoming Poush.
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