By Karuna Thapa
Kathmandu, April 19
A decade and a half after the construction of the Dipayal Expressway began, the track was
finally completed. The three-kilometer Babaina-Ojena road segment of Kailali’s Chure
Gaonpalika-1 has completed the Khutiya-Dipayal Expressway’s track.
The process of opening the track in the Kailali and Doti sections has been finished, according to the Dhangadhi-Dipayal Expressway Construction Project Office. The work of opening the three-kilometer route in Babaina-Ojena in the Kailali region has been finished, according to Dinesh Raikhola, a project engineer. He says grading work will now begin.
The Khutiya-Dipayal Expressway was officially surveyed and inaugurated in 2008. Despite the fact that an 82-kilometer route from Khutiya to Dipayal had been surveyed at the time, it was decided to create a 92-kilometer expressway between Dhangadhi and Dipayal by adding a 10-kilometer road from Syaule in Kailali to Dhangadhi.
The construction of the road on the Dhangadhi-Syaule portion of the road has commenced.
Work to construct road 13.4 kilometers from Dhangadhi’s Pipal Chautara to Syaule has begun after Khadka Krishna Narayan JV was awarded the contract for Rs. 16 crores 40 lakh.
The community police office at Pipalchautara in Hasanpur, Dhangadhi Sub-metropolis-5, will blacktop the road right above the east-west highway in Syaule, according to the contract agreement, stated Engineer Raikhola. He stated that the contract agreement was signed on July 4 of the previous fiscal year with the intention of completing the road construction within the next 30 months.
In the current fiscal year, the Dhangadhi-Dipayal Expressway Project Office has signed an
agreement to construct a road of 13.4 kilometers from Dhangadhi and 9.5 kilometers from
Doti’s Dipayal.
According to project engineer Raikhola, drains are being built on both the left and right sides of the Dhangadhi-Syau road section to level the road.
Similarly, the road section was inspected by Far-Western Chief Minister Chilochan Bhatta on
Monday. He stated that when the work of opening the expressway track is done during the
monitoring, the task of further upgrading would be increased.
