Manakamana Cable Car to close for three days for maintenance

Chitwan, October 14 — The Manakamana Cable Car will be closed for three days. It will be shut down for maintenance from October 15 to October 17.

Ujjwal Sherchan, the Deputy Manager of Manakamana Darshan Pvt. Ltd., stated that the closure is necessary for repairs and to reduce the cable car's sway. The cable car is scheduled to resume regular operations on October 18.

Prior to this, it was also closed for two days on October 12 (Tika) and October 13 (Ekadashi). Today, the cable car is operating for one day.

The Manakamana Cable Car was launched on December 8, 1998, to facilitate pilgrims visiting the famous Manakamana Temple located in Gorkha's Sahid Lakhan Rural Municipality.

The entrance, known as the "Bottom Station," is situated at Cheres in Chitwan's Ichhakamana Rural Municipality-4.