A landslide has blocked the Mid-Hill Highway at Bakse Khalto in Baglung Municipality-3. The most problematic area of the Mid-Hill (Pushpalal) Highway is the Bokse area.
The road is being demolished in Bokse, which is becoming a headache on the highway. The highway project office says that the problem of the highway will be resolved to some extent.
Currently, the slope of the highway is being worked on in Bokse Khalto. Work has been intensified from February in the district headquarters section of Baglung district, which has been neglected for a long time. The work being done now has raised hopes that the highway will be tarred. According to the Mid-Hill Pushpalal Highway Project Office Parbat, gravel work is in full swing from the district headquarters of Achhet.
Narayan Dutta Bhandari of Pushpalal Lok Marg Project Office Parbat informed that the road has gained momentum after the continuous monitoring of the Lok Marg Project Office.
"The road from Baglung Bazaar to Achhete has gained blacktop. The road from the Bazaar to Bokse has been prepared for blacktop," he said.
The project is confident that the problem of landslides will be eliminated. The road from the district headquarters to Achhet Bazaar will be graveled immediately after the blacktop. The district headquarters section of the Mid-Hill Pushpalal Highway has not been blacklisted even after six years.
Jang Bahadur Karki, a local of Khare in Baglung Municipality-3, expressed confidence that the road, which has been blocked for some time, has now been blackened. Other sections of the Mid-Hills Pushpalal Highway have been blacktopped. The contract was signed by dividing the Baglung Bazaar Upallachaur-Akshet-Bihu section of the Mid-Hills Pushpalal Highway and the 25-kilometer Bihu-Ghodabandhe road section into two sections.
Bharat-Siddhisai JV had signed a contract with Uppalachaur on January 29, 2016 to blacktop 12 km road in two years. A total of 1,776 kilometers of the highway falls in the Baglung section alone 142 kilometers. Out of this, only 25 kilometers of roads in Baglung remain to be tarred.
Similarly, the Ghodambadhe-Galkot section of the Mid-Hill Highway, which has been tarred, is being damaged less than four years after. Due to the landslide, the road from Ghodabandhe to Galkot on the Mid-Hills Highway has been dug up. The budget for the road maintenance is being discussed, according to the Mid-Hill Highway Project Office Parbat.
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