Baglung, June 1 -- kilometre stretch in the Baglung section of the 417-km Kaligandaki Corridor, being constructed to connect the Sunauli border of India with the Korala border point of China, has not been blacktopped.

The road section under the Kaligandaki Corridor in Baglung has remained unpaved, even 12 years after the track was opened. The track was opened by the Nepali Army in the fiscal year 2014-15 and later handed over to the Kaligandaki Corridor Road Project for upgrading and blacktopping works.

Despite extensions to the contract period for a second time, the project has still not reached completion. For the Balewa-Maldhunga section in Baglung, the first contract of 24 months was signed on November 15, 2022, followed by a one-ye...