RAJBIRAJ, AUGUST 6

Rajbiraj Municipality has started to remove illegally constructed infrastructure to manage and widen the Postal Highway in Saptari.

With the help of security personnel, the municipality demolished physical infrastructure constructed within nine metres of the road.

Municipality acting Chief Ishrat Parbin said that the municipality had issued written and oral notification for the same time and again.

'We were compelled to take action after the negligence of the residents,' she added. He said that most of the people did not pay attention to the municipality notice even seven days after the notice was issued. Chief District Officer Bhupendra Thapa, SP Narendra Kumar Karki, DSP Naresh Kumar Singh, along with municipality staffers, and the security team had reached the site this morning.

The infrastructure were demolished using dozer.

Parbin said that the land would be evacuated soon.

She added that preparation was under way to evacuate the encroachment in the inner road section and Rajbiraj prison areas. 'The decision was taken to make the postal highway wide and clean, and manage vehicular movement,' she added.

A version of this article appears in the print on August 7, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.