Narayanghat-Butwal road to be accessible

लगानी न्यूज

५ कार्तिक २०८२, बुधबार ११:३४October 22, 2025

Nawalpur. The Narayanghat-Butwal road section of the East-West Highway is becoming easier for travel. According to the Narayanghat-Butwal Road Project, out of the 113 kilometres section of the road, the highway has become smooth in other places except Daunne.

According to Engineer Shiva Khanal, information officer of the eastern section of the project, the road expansion works are taking place at 11 different places.TAG_OPEN_div_48 According to him, transportation has been made accessible in all areas except two kilometers in the eastern section of Daunne and around five kilometers in the western section.

Stating that the highway has been eased by removing dust in the Daunne section, he said that preparations for operation of various bridges, blacktopping of service lanes and blacktopping of highways are going on.TAG_OPEN_div_46

TAG_OPEN_div_44″The work is moving ahead at a rapid pace to make the Daunne section easier,” he said, adding, “The highway will be fully accessible by this winter, after which we will start other works of highway expansion.” According to Khanal, out of 22 small bridges and 12 big bridges to be constructed along this section, except two big bridges at Arunkhola and Chormara have been completed.

According to him, works are being carried out to construct service lanes in the place where one side of blacktopping has been completed, to construct a divider in the middle of the road and to ease the road in the damaged area.TAG_OPEN_div_42

Engineer Rakesh Jha of China State Engineering Corporation Limited, who was awarded the contract for the expansion of the road, said that Butwal can be reached from Narayanghat in two and a half hours.TAG_OPEN_div_40

} “The road has become very easy compared to the past, we can reach Narayanghat from Butwal in two and a half hours by public bus,” he said. He said that although the work has been progressed at a slower pace during the Tihar festival, the expansion of the road will be expedited after Chhath.

He said that work is currently underway in Gaindakot, Devchuli, Chormara, Daunne and other places.TAG_OPEN_div_36 Stating that the work of blacktopping the road is going on in the Gaindakot area, Jha said that the work of constructing dividers in the middle of the road is going on in the place where the two-way blacktopping has already been done.

}} “In some places, the construction of railing of the bridges has already started, in some places the finishing and service lane of the road has also started,” he said, “In the hills of Daunne, the work of slope and removal of dust and construction of wall on the roadside is going on to ease the road.” ’

“Last year, it used to take up to seven hours to cross the road at this time,” he said.TAG_OPEN_div_32 Sangam Lamsal of Gaindakot, who has been driving on the Narayanghat-Butwal road, said that the road has been easy to take the passengers to their destinations on time.

TAG_OPEN_div_30″Last year, it used to take more than seven hours to cross this road and it was necessary to get the vehicle serviced while traveling one-way,” he said, “Now the problem has been resolved and the repair cost of the vehicle has also come down due to the ease of the road.” ’

After the expansion of the road, the distance from Narayanghat to Butwal will be shortened in 90 minutes.TAG_OPEN_div_28

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided loan assistance at 1.5 percent interest of 85 percent out of the budget of Rs 17 billion.TAG_OPEN_div_27

{{TAG_OPEN_div_25} The road expansion work started from January 2079 BS with the aim of completing the construction by July 2079, but the deadline extended for the fourth time is expiring on July 22.