BP Highway Reconstruction Intensifies Following Severe Flood Damage

Kavrepalanchok. Travel along the BP Highway has been arduous for the past year and a half. The highway, which frequently faces disruptions even from moderate rainfall, has already been blocked twice by mid-Chaitra. Permanent reconstruction aimed at restoring the highway, which had facilitated travel to the mid-hill region until a year and a half ago, has now begun.The BP Highway is the shortest, sole alternative, and a vital road link connecting the federal capital, Kathmandu, with eastern Nepal. Floods in October of last year and the year before left the road section from Chaukidanda in Kavrepalanchok to various areas in...