Kavrepalanchowk. Kavrepalanchowk- Traffic has been suspended for 12 hours at night on the Kavrepalanchowk-section of the BP Highway for a month from today. According to the District Administration Office, Dhulikhel, the highway has been blocked from Kavrebhanjyang to Sindhuli-Border Nepalthok for a month.

Issuing a public appeal, the Office said that the movement of traffic has been suspended for a month from 5 pm to 5 am in the mentioned areas of the highway from today to reduce the risk of disaster-related incidents as there is a potential risk of flood and landslide on the BP Highway while the monsoon is active.

According to Chief District Officer Umesh Kumar Dhakal, vehicles coming from Kathmandu to Kavrebhanjyang and Kathmandu will be stopped at Sindhuli border nepalthok.

According to him, a meeting of the inter-district coordination committee of the security committee officials of Kavrepalanchowk, Sindhuli and Ramechhap districts had earlier banned the operation of the road for about 10 hours and 15 days from 6:30 pm to 5 am on the BP Highway from June 12. During this period, vehicles going from Kathmandu were stopped at Kavrebhanjyang of Kavrep and those coming to Kathmandu at Khurkot of Sindhuli.

In the last one week, the road to Kavrepalanchowk section has been blocked four times due to floods and landslides. A temporary road has been brought into operation to operate one-way and two-way traffic in the river as the eight-kilometer road section from Chowkidanda of Kavre to Barshakhola of Sindhuli was washed away by floods and landslides last September.

Out of the total 160 km of the highway, 34 km from Khurkot of Sindhuli to Nepalthok and 50 km from Nepalthok of Fourth Section Nepalthok to Dhulikhel of Kavrepalanchowk were damaged in various parts of the highway.

The office is also in the process of awarding contracts in four sections for the permanent construction of the damaged highway. Thousands of vehicles pass through the highway, which is a short distance connecting eastern Nepal every day.