Budget appropriated for opening track for alternative Muglin-Narayangadh road

DAMAULI, TANAHUN: The task of opening track for the alternative road of Muglin-Narayangadh section has begun.

The opening of Muglin-Gaighat-Dasdhunga-Thimura-Gaindakot road as an alternative route has begun.

The Department of Roads (DoR) has allocated Rs 26.93 million for the project in the current fiscal year 2024/25.

Work is underway to open the track of the road from Anbukhaireni Rural Municipality-4, Pulzeep in Tanahun district.

The DoR has awarded a contract for the first phase of the road linking Muglin with Gaindakot in Nawalpur via Gaighat, Dasdhunga, Thimura, and Devpur in Devghat.

Keshav Chandra Neupane, resident of Devghat, said the government has listened to the demands raised by the locals repeatedly for the construction of an alternative route.

Locals had demanded an alternative road connecting Dasdhunga via the British Camp of Gaidakot Municipality-3 and Deupur of Devghat Rural Municipality-5 in Nawalpur and an alternative route from Dasdhunga to Muglin along the banks of the Trishuli in Tanahun.

Devghat Rural Municipality Chair, Til Bahadur Thapa, said Devghat would take the initiative to construct the road.

Devghat is not currently touched by the national highway, Thapa said, expressing the belief that the road from Gaindakot to Dasdhunga via Devghat, if constructed, would bring religious tourism opportunities to the pilgrimage site.

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