Government gears up to operate BP Highway via temporary diversion
KATHMANDU: A team led by the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Kul Man Ghising, carried out a monitoring inspection of sections of the BP Highway damaged by recent floods and landslides. The team comprised the ministry’s Secretary Keshab Kumar Sharma and the Director General of the Department of Roads (DoR), Bijaya Jaishi, among other officials.
The minister‑led team conducted the inspection as preparations are underway to operate the highway by constructing a temporary diversion on the roughly four‑kilometre section damaged by the flood.
Minister Ghising urged DoR engineers and the construction contractors deployed in the field to work to ensure that the road, which serves as a lifeline connecting districts in Bagmati, Madhesh and Koshi provinces with the federal capital Kathmandu, becomes operational as soon as possible.
Last year’s flood damaged the Bhakunde–Nepalthok section of the highway. Although a temporary diversion had been constructed and transport operated on that section, the recent flood has washed away about four kilometres of the road again.
Minister Ghising’s private secretariat stated that contracts have already been awarded to permanently reconstruct some sections damaged by last year’s flood, while the contracting process for additional sections is in its final stage.
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