Jomsom-Kagbeni road section blacktopped

Kathmandu: A 13-kilometer road from Jomsom to Kagbeni under the national pride project, Kaligandaki Corridor, has been blacktopped.

The road section has been widened to 11 meters. A contract was signed to blacktop the Jomsom-Kagbeni section at a cost of Rs 281.4 million. Information Officer of the Beni-Jomsom-Korala Road Project, Bishnu Chapagain said the blacktopping task has been completed and activities related to road furniture have reached the final phase.

Of the 110-kilometre from Jomsom to Korala checkpoint, the 75-kilometre road has been expanded and gravelled. Ninety-two per cent of construction along the 25-kilometer Charang-Chhoser section has been completed. Project Chief Dhurba Kumar Jha shared that the road from Jomsom to Korala would be gravelled after the completion of the upgrading task of the Charang-Chhoser section.

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