Govt allocates Rs 31.02bn for East-West Highway expansion

KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat has said the work of expansion of the four-lane East-West Highway will be expedited. Presenting the annual budget for the coming fiscal year 2023/24 in the joint meeting of the Federal Parliament today, Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat mentioned that expansion and upgrading task of Narayangadh-Butwal and Kamala-Kanchanpur road section will be completed within the coming fiscal year. Similarly, upgrading of Kamala-Dhalkebar-Pathalaiya, Butwal-Gorusinge, Kakarbhitta-Laukahi, Pathalaiya-Narayangadh and Lamahi-Bhalubang road sections will be started. Signature bridges will be constructed over Narayani River and Tinau River, he added. The finance minister shared that Rs 31.02 billion has been allocated for expansion and upgrading of East-West Highway. The government will focus its investment in easy, safe, quality and sustainable transport infrastructures to facilitate citizens’ life and to prepare a basis for economic development, he viewed. READ ALSO:

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