Prime Minster and Nepal Communist Party (NCP) chair KP Sharma Oli is set to lay the foundation stone of two development projects in Chitwan on January 30. In addition, the prime minister is also scheduled to address a public gathering to be hosted the same day. In a press conference organised here on Sunday, the NCP office in Chitwan has informed about the PM’s scheduled programme to lay the foundation stone for the construction of a city hall in Bharatpur and inaugurate the expansion of a six-lane road.

On the occasion, NCP central member and district party coordinator Parbati Rawal said the prime minister is all set to lay the foundation stone for the city hall and also inaugurate the expansion of Pulchowk-Gondrang six-lane road along the East-West Highway. Both the construction works are to be carried out in coordination with the line ministries, she shared. Rawal, also the chairperson of National Assembly (NA)’s National Concern and Coordination Committee, informed that a public gathering will be organised in Bharatpur after the completion of these programmes.

Prime Minister Oli along with Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa, Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Basanta Kuamr Nembang and Minister for Urban Development Prabhu Sah, among others are scheduled to address the public gathering to be held in Bharatpur on the same day.

The construction of a well-appointed city hall with a capacity to accommodate 2,000 people is under construction on over four bighas of land along Bypass Road in Bharatpur Metropolis-10. It will also have a conference hall with a capacity to accommodate 300 people, shared chief of Intensive Urban and Building Construction Project Bharatpur, Prakash Aryal.

Likewise, the contract for a six-lane road from Pulchowk of Narayangarh to Gondryang has been signed. As per the contract, the expansion will be completed within two years and four months. The six-lane road expansion is to be completed at an estimated cost of one billion and 120 million rupees.