Kalikot, May 17 -- The government has secured Rs6.11 billion in budget funding for the long-awaited road upgrade and construction of bridges along the Karnali Corridor. The budget has been ensured for the construction of six bridges and the blacktopping of a 60-kilometre section of the strategic Karnali Corridor.

The Ministry of Finance recently granted formal approval to the Department of Roads to initiate the competitive multi-year bidding process for the Khulalu-Hilsa stretch of the national pride project.

According to Bisundas Lama, the chief of the Khulalu-Sallisalla road project, this fresh capital injection will finally facilitate the upgrade of the corridor into a two-lane asphalt highway. "The Finance Ministry has cleared the r...