Lamjung, July 13 : The Besisahar-Chame road – the only road section linking hilly Lamjung district and mountainous Manang district – is to remain closed for two days from today.
The Besisahar-Chame road project
office shared that the road will remain closed from 10.00 am this morning
(Thursday) through 5.00 pm (Friday) for the construction of two wooden bridges
over the Timang power house rivulet and Syarku rivulet.
Engineer at the project office,
Suman Adhikari informed said two wooden bridges, one in Chame Rural
Municipality-1 over the Timang power house rivulet and another in ward-2 over
the Syarku rivulet, are being constructed.
He further informed that vehicular
movement has been brought to a grinding halt along the road stretch for the
purpose.
"Wooden bridges were
constructed in the areas two years back. Now the wooden materials used in the
bridges are deteriorating so the plan is to replace the wrought out materials
with new ones. It has become an urgent need to avoid any accidents on the
bridge through which loaded vehicles also pass through", he further
said.
The wooden bridge to be constructed
over the Timang Bridge will have nine-meter length and four-and-a-half-meter
breadth.
Another wooden bridge with
seven-meter length and four-meter breadth will be constructed over the Syarku
rivulet.