Baglung's Dudiaghat Bridge Completed, Ensuring Year-Round Transport

Baglung. A concrete bridge has been constructed at Dudiaghat connecting Bhimadokhara of Kathekhola Rural Municipality-2 and Tangram of Ward No. 4 in Baglung. This bridge was built at a cost of three crore sixty-two lakh twenty-two thousand rupees from the Gandaki Province government's budget with the aim of operating vehicles throughout the year within the rural municipality. The construction company, BMA Construction Service, completed this bridge, which was contracted in Kartik 2080 with a target completion by Baishakh 2082, slightly later than the contracted period.

According to Dipesh Rizal, Chief of the Infrastructure Development Office, this 20-meter long and 8.40-meter wide bridge has now reached the handover stage. Construction entrepreneur Bimlesh Acharya informed that although the bridge's concreting was completed earlier, the delay in the work on both sides of the road and in payments caused the completion to be delayed by a year. With the operation of this bridge, the short road connecting Tangram, Dhamja, and Tarakhola Rural Municipality in Kathekhola will not have its transport disrupted even during the rainy season.

Raju Thapa, Chairman of Kathekhola Rural Municipality, stated that with the construction of three concrete bridges in various locations of the rural municipality, transportation will no longer be halted during the rains. Bridges at Eklekhhet, Lamabagar, and now Dudiaghat have been completed with a total investment of 12 crore rupees from the Gandaki Province government. Previously, a 30-meter long bridge was built at Lamabagar at a cost of three crore thirty-one lakh, and a 25-meter long bridge was built at Eklekhhet at a cost of five crore. Chairman Thapa mentioned that after resolving the bridge problem, the rural municipality's focus will now shift towards road upgrading.