Preparations underway to resume vehicular movement from BP Highway damaged by floods and landslides

लगानी न्यूज

२ चैत्र २०८२, सोमबार १३:२५March 16, 2026

Kavrepalanchok. The reconstruction of BP Highway, which was damaged by frequent floods and landslides, is currently going on in full swing.

According to the Division Road Office, Bhaktapur, the permanent reconstruction work of the damaged road section of the highway has been expedited.TAG_OPEN_div_50

Senior Divisional Engineer Suman Yogesh, chief of the office, said that the construction work has been expedited so that the infrastructure would be constructed before the coming monsoon and vehicles would be operated from the highway.TAG_OPEN_div_48

According to him, the road reconstruction work will be completed within two years.TAG_OPEN_div_46 According to Yogesh, 25 percent of the work has been completed so far in the three road sections which were awarded the contract for Kavrepalanchowk.

} The permanent reconstruction process has been started since last December after the floods and landslides occurred in September 2081 and the damage caused by this year’s rains. According to him, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will reconstruct the remaining one section of the three three kilometers road from Barkhekhola to Piple within this month.

The construction of RCC walls is underway at various places where the damages have been damaged while plump walls have been constructed from the rivulets at Chaukidanda and RCC walls have also been constructed at Charsabesi and Bhakundebesi.TAG_OPEN_div_42 Likewise, widening of roads at Dalabesi, Mangaltar and Charsabesi to Narke is also going on, said Yogesh.

According to him, the structure has been designed to be damaged by floods in the area where the floods of last year and this year ‘washed out’.TAG_OPEN_div_40 The reconstruction of the damaged sections of the highway in Kavrepalanchowk and Sindhuli districts is expected to be completed within the next two years.

According to the office, work has been started simultaneously in three sections for the reconstruction of the damaged highway.TAG_OPEN_div_38 According to Yogesh, construction of structures in the damaged areas, widening of roads and other works would be completed this year while blacktopping the remaining structures in the remaining areas next year would be accelerated. The floods and landslides have damaged around 30-km road along the Kavrepalanchowk and Sindhuli sections of the highway.

{{TAG_OPEN_div_36} In the next reconstruction, the highway will be upgraded and a two-lane road will be constructed. “The road to be reconstructed will have a two-lane road and another bridge will be constructed along with the bridges within it,” said Yogesh.

According to him, there is also a plan to convert five bridges into two lanes.TAG_OPEN_div_34 Khani-Avon-Kamaljeet JV has been awarded the contract to reconstruct the 8.5-km road from Dalabesi to Charsabesi at a cost of Rs 1.42 billion (including VAT).

Likewise, Lama-Nawakantipur JV was awarded a contract for the reconstruction of 11.08 km road from Charsabesi to Bhakundebesi at a cost of Rs 1.33 billion.TAG_OPEN_div_32 A contract agreement has been signed with the Kharidhunga-Ghising-Kshitij JV for the reconstruction of 4.90 kilometers road from Nepalthok to Barkhekhola at a cost of Rs 610 million.

Of the total 29 TAG_OPEN_div_30.5 kilometres of the 29.5-km road, JICA has agreed to provide a grant of Rs 2.63 billion for the construction of the 3.2 km road from Barkhekhola to Piple. The government had already awarded the contract for the construction of other sections except the road section to be constructed by JICA before last September.

The government has agreed to reconstruct Rs 8 TAG_OPEN_div_28.50 billion for the reconstruction of the damaged section. Three roads towards Kavrepalanchowk have been allocated Rs 7.50 billion while one road in Sindhuli has been allocated Rs 1 billion.

The construction of the BP Highway (TAG_OPEN_div_26 160 km Dhulikhel-Sindhuli-Bardibas) was started in the fiscal year 2053/54 BS with the grant assistance of the Japanese government. The government of Japan had formally handed over the construction of the highway to the Government of Nepal on Asar 1, 2072 BS. The highway is taken as a short route connecting the central capital Kathmandu with mid-hill and eastern Nepal.