KATHMANDU, FEB 17 –
Spurred on by the road expansion campaign’s success in Kathmandu and Lalitpur, the government has started expanding roads in neighbouring Bhaktapur district.
As a part of the road expansion drive, the road sections between SOS Hermann Gmeiner School in Sanothimi and the Bode area were demolished on Saturday. The walls enclosing the offices belonging to the Ministry of Education were also demolished the same day.
The Bhaktapur chapter of the Kathmandu Valley Development Authority (KVDA), with the participation of local people, launched the drive after the concerned authorities failed to comply with the government’s public notice announcing the start of the campaign, said Basant Rai, commissioner of KVDA Bhaktapur. The walls of various government offices such as Curriculum Development Centre and Higher Secondary Education Board were destroyed to meet the required criteria of widening the road up to 11 meters.
According to Rai, the widening campaign started from Madhyapur Thimi Municipality and will continue to bulldoze illegal houses and infrastructure in the coming days.
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