Mustang, March 16: The construction
entrepreneurs have been found compromising quality in a road construction in
the district.
The ring road linking all five
wards of Gharapjhong rural municipality had subpar blacktopping, which created
public ire and questioned the role of oversight body as well.
The ward-5 office of the local
level wrote a clarification letter to the infrastructure development office in
response to the growing complaints on the substandard pitch on the Jomsom-Thini
road section of the ring road.
The road was blacktopped under the
'one constituency, one road project'. It was enforced by the infrastructure
development office, Mustang under the Gandaki Province government.
The road blacktopped some years
back began splitting open due to use of nonstandard materials, the locals
argued.
The construction company has,
however, responded that it might be because of the low temperature. An
information officer for the project, Ghanashyam Rokamagar, said, "The
blacktopping should have been done at a time of proper temperature. Adverse
temperature puts the construction at risk," he added. (RSS)