DOLAKHA, NOVEMBER 13
Local people and seniors of civil society staged a protest to press the authorities for construction of Mude-Charikot road by putting up banners with photos of minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, and secretary of the ministry and the director general of the department of roads on vehicles in Dolakha today.
Construction of Mude-Charikot road section at Lamosanghu that connects Dolakha with the federal capital has been left in a lurch for the last six years.
Locals and seniors of civil society staged the protest by putting up photos of Minister Renu Kumari Yadav, Secretary Rabindra Nath Shrestha and Director General Arjun Jung Thapa of the Department of Roads on public vehicles that ply to and from Kathmandu.
The banners had different slogans, including when will you construct the Mude-Charikot road, government? How long will you stare at our plight? Agitating civil society activist and journalist Shrrejan Kumar Ghimire said that they had staged a symbolic protest to draw the government's attention to the plight facing locals.
Ghimire warned of a series of agitation until road construction and expansion were carried out.
Locals bemoaned that the state of the road had deteriorated after the companies assigned the contract for the road expansion fled without notice.
Expansion of the 30-kilomtre road from Mude to Charikot started in 2016. The contractors fleeing without discharging their duties has hit local people hard.
A version of this article appears in the print on November 14, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
