Butwal, February 24
Here is the good news for people frequently travelling via the Butwal-Palpa road of the Siddhartha Highway; the Siddhababa section that gets blocked by landslides every now and then will soon boast a tunnel to skip the trouble.
Regional road officials say the road will be blocked for eight hours a day–from 11 am to 2 pm and from 10 pm to 3 am–from Saturday onwards to construct a diversion to begin the work for the tunnel.
China State Construction Engineering Corporation has been assigned to construct the 1,100-metre tunnel at the cost of Rs 7.34 billion.
