Road defects decrease tourists visiting Lumbini

Kathmandu: The number of tourists visiting the Lumbini, enlisted in the World Heritage Site, started decreasing due to the poor condition of the Narayangadh-Butwal road section.    

According to the Lumbini Development Trust, at least one million domestic tourists visited Lumbini annually before 2076 BS. Such a number of tourists did not visit the Lumbini area for two years.    

Member-Secretary of the Trust, Sanuraja Shakya, told RSS that though the country returned to normalcy after the Coronavirus pandemic, around 600 thousand tourists visit Lumbini every year now. It is all because of road defects, he argued.    

Sharing that it took 13 hours to reach Kathmandu from Butwal in an office vehicle, he stressed the need for upgrading different roads to increase the number of religious tourists.    

Though infrastructures were developed in the Lumbini area, the tourists have been complaining about the problems, especially in the Narayangadh-Butwal road section, he mentioned.    

The arrival of domestic and foreign tourists in Lumbini as well as different districts of west Nepal would increase if the Narayangadh-Butwal road were upgraded on time.