BP Highway Traffic Restricted at Night Due to Unseasonal Rain

Kavrepalanchok. The security bodies have urged to travel only after understanding the condition of the BP Highway as the highway is often blocked daily due to unseasonal rain. The District Security Committee has already banned indefinite movement on the highway at night from Tuesday.

The committee has banned indefinite movement on the highway from 5:00 PM to 5:00 AM due to risks including rain. District Police Office Information Officer Deputy Superintendent of Police Rabin Bisht informed that the movement on the highway at night has been banned indefinitely from Tuesday as the road gets blocked due to the rising water level of Roshi Khola and washing away of the 'diversion' due to unseasonal rain. According to him, the movement on the highway will be regularized again according to the seasonal conditions.

Earlier, due to the rain on Monday, passengers stranded between Laskot and Ghumaine on the BP Highway in Roshi Rural Municipality-7 were rescued at night. A team of Nepali Army, Nepal Police, and Armed Police rescued 89 passengers of five microbuses safely at 1:00 AM today and sent them to their destinations. Due to the flood after the rain, the security bodies had stopped the movement in the said area from 5:00 PM on Monday as the temporary diversion built on the BP Highway in the Roshi area started to be washed away. After the highway was blocked, vehicles were 'held' at the highway entrance points of Dhulikhel and Kavrebhanjyang and Mangaltar and Nepalthok in Sindhuli.

The police have requested the general public to travel only during the day after understanding the condition of the highway, and have also appealed to the road travelers not to travel in the said section until another notice is issued. Due to unseasonal rain, the road has been obstructed from time to time as the floodwaters of Roshi Khola have washed away the temporary diversions at various places on the BP Highway from Namobuddha Municipality of Kavrepalanchok to Nepalthok of Sindhuli.

Last year's flood and landslide had washed away 18 km of the road in the Choukidaanda, Roshi, and Nepalthok areas of Sindhuli on the highway, and movement has been taking place by constructing diversions in the river itself. The Division Road Office Bhaktapur has stated that permanent road construction is currently underway in that area.