Baglung, May 21 -- Seven years after Baglung Municipality announced plans to establish an industrial village in Kalakhola area of ward 13, the project remains stalled due to a lack of road access, electricity and security infrastructure.

The municipality had prepared around 86 ropanis of land for the project, which was launched under the Gandaki Province government's plan to establish at least one industrial village in every local unit. However, the project has seen little progress since then, and more than one-third of the acquired land has already been eroded by the Kaligandaki river.

No construction work has begun on the remaining land. Instead, Bidari Construction, the company involved in building the Kaligandaki Corridor road, has ...