Karnali budget: Physical infrastructure and road on priority

KATHMANDU, JUNE 16 : The Karnali province government has laid emphasis on the construction and maintenance of big, medium, and small roads. In its annual budget presented on Wednesday, it stipulated several priorities, including implementing road and bridge projects after framing a road master plan, formulating provincial roads, coordinating with the federal government for the construction of Karnali and Bheri corridor, implementing 'at least one road in each district' as a province pride project, speeding up the construction of multi-year contract signed road projects and constructing roads linking centre of the local level to the wards.

Likewise, the provincial government has allocated Rs 240 million for the construction of a road from Jumla Airport Urthukhali-Nyaurighat-Bulbule and Kalikot Lalu-Laifu-Kotwada-Rupa to Ramaroshan of Achham in Sudurpaschim. Other projects included in the budget are the construction of the Chisapani-Musikot road, Sarkegad-Simkot road, Gamgadhi-Nakchenangla road, and City road in Birendranagar and the implementation of infrastructure development project, among others. --

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