Nine kilometer road blacktopped

Damauli (Tanahun), July 16: A nine-kilometer road from Byas Municipality-5, Ranitari to Myagde Rural Municipality-4, Ghumti has been blacktopped. 

The raw road has been blacktopped and upgraded, aiming to develop it as an alternative route of the Prithvi Highway. 

Chief of the Infrastructure Development Office, Rabindra Tiwari informed that the blacktopping has been carried out a year prior to the completion time. 

The office had awarded a contract of Rs 366.29 million for the up-gradation of the road. The distance from Ranitari to Ghumti is 9.2-km. Out of the total distance, 7.3 km has been blacktopped with the use of asphalt technology while RCC has been done on 1.9-km. (RSS)