Kavrepalanchowk. Vehicular movement on the BP Highway has been suspended for another 15 days from August 15. According to the District Administration Office, Kavrepalanchowk, vehicular movement has been suspended for 12 hours till September 15.

A meeting of the District Security Committee held on Friday decided to ban the operation of passenger and private vehicles on the highway from 5:00 pm to 5:00 am. According to the office, the highway has been blocked from Kavrebhanjyang to Sindhuli-Border Nepalthok for another 15 days.

Taking the decision, the Office has also urged the public to remain vigilant as the operation of vehicles has been banned in the mentioned areas of the highway to reduce the risk as there is a potential risk of flood and landslide on the BP Highway while the monsoon is active.

Assistant Chief District Officer Sudarshan Shrestha said that private and public vehicles have been banned during the night due to high risk on the BP Highway during the monsoon season. According to him, traffic movement has been stopped from Kavrebhanjyang of Kavrepalanchowk to Khurkot section of Sindhuli due to risk. Vehicles coming from Kathmandu will be stopped at Kavrebhanjyang of the district and those coming towards Kathmandu will be stopped at Nepalthok, the border of Sindhuli.

Earlier, a meeting of the inter-district coordination committee of the office-bearers of the security committee of Kavrepalanchowk, Sindhuli and Ramechhap districts had banned the operation of roads on the BP Highway from 6:30 pm to 5:00 am for about 10 hours and 15 days from mid-July and from 5:00 pm to 5:00 am throughout the month of July.

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 Kavrepalanchowk to Barshakhola of Sindhuli was washed away by floods and landslides in September last year.

Out of the total 160 km of the highway, 34 km from Khurkot of Sindhuli to Nepalthok and 50 km of fourth section from 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 ply through the highway, which is a short distance connecting eastern Nepal.