Kawaswoti, March 16 : Blacktopping has started at
Kawaswoti area in the eastern section of East-West Narayangarh-Butwal road
following four years since its foundation stone was laid.
Blacktopping was done in 500-meter
section of the road at forest area between Kawaswoti (around 30-km away from
Narayangarh) and Lokaha.
It may be noted that the foundation
stone was laid for the Narayangarh-Butwal road section linking the east-west
connectivity on 22 March 2019. Earlier, test blacktopping was undertaken in
Harkapur in the eastern and Bhumahi in the western section of the road.
Narayangarh-Butwal Road Project
manger Rakesh Jha informed that the four-km section between Kawaswoti and
Lokaha would be blacktopped within a week.
According to him, the 7.5-meter
wide road towards north side of the highway was blacktopped in the first phase.
"The blacktopping done on Wednesday was 6-cm thick. Additional 4-cm would
be added in the second phase which is to be completed by mid-April", he
informed.
The progress of road widening
project was only 26 percent by mid-March, the project sources informed. The
Chinese Company, China State Engineering Corporation, was implementing the
project at the total cost of over Rs 16 billion 995 million.
The Asian
Development Bank had provided 85 percent of the estimated project budget on
loan assistance for the expansion of 115-km road from Gaindakot-based Narayani
River Bridge to Butwal. As per the design, there would be six lane in
settlement areas, four lane in forest areas and three lane in Daunne area.