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Completing Track Of Fast-track Highway Linking Kathmandu with Hetauda
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 12, 2013: the Nepal Army has completed the track of the Fast-track Highway from Kathmandu to Hetauda. The government assigned the Nepal Army to construct a track of the Fast-track Highway in 2009. The army has completed 76-km long track with 12-meter wide at all places and 7.5-meter at the difficult terrain. This track is made for constructing the four-lane Fast-track Highway from Kathmandu to Hetauda. So, it is not opened to the public transport, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
The Fast-track Highway will cost 76 billion rupees. The construction of this highway will be started in January 2014 and will be completed in five years. It has 96 bridges, and 1.6 km tunnel to be constructed.
The highway will reduce the traveling time from Kathmandu to Hetauda to one and a half hours from the daylong travel of today. It will bring all the Terai areas closer to Kathmandu.
It will make the savings of Rs 10 billion per year from the reduced cost of transportation of the petroleum products, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today. Anybody could imagine how many more benefits it will bring to the people.
In the early 1990s, a foreign company had privately proposed to build this highway but the concerned minister of the government headed by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala had demanded commission. The private company refused to give any commission. The construction of the highway had been shelved since then.
