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KATHMANDU, JUL 22 –
The road expansion campaign continued on Saturday as well as the walls, houses and buildings built encroaching on the roads were brought down from Bhagwati Bahal to Naxal and Pipalbot to Mitra Park.
Authorities demolished around 200 structures, mostly huts, walls and a few concrete houses, in Gaucharan, Kalopul and Setopul leading up to Pipalbot, north of Mitra Park. Sixty police personnel were deployed along the two kilometres of the road linking Naxal and Mitrapark.
The Kathmandu Valley Town Development Implementation Committee (KVTDIC), the government’s body pushing ahead theroad expansion drive, said the main roads will be the main target before expanding smaller ones. “Right now we are focussing on main roads that suffer from a lot of traffic snarls. After we expand all the main roads, then we will expand the small roads and built alternate routes,” said Bhai Kaji Tiwari, chief of the KVTDIC. He also said that local residents have been supportive of the road expansion.
Last week, the road expansion drive widened various main roads in the Capital and is now expanding various other smaller roads within the city. On Friday, 700 meters of the Jawalakhel road was expanded and earlier this week, the road linking Ranibari and Kapurdhara was also widened, but is incomplete due to marking problems. Tiwari said the Ranibari- Kapurdhara road would be complete this week. Officials of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, the Department of Roads, locals, traffic police and representatives from local organisations were present during the road expansion drive. KVTDIC plans to expand the 3-km road linking Galfutar with Budhanilkantha later this week.
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