Karnali Province to have infrastructure labs

Surkhet: All nine districts of Karnali Province will have quality control laboratories. The information officer at the Ministry of Physical Infrastructures and Urban Development in the province, Prabin Karki, informed that the ministry was setting up the infrastructure laboratories within this fiscal year.

Quotas for nine lab technicians were created to run the labs, he added.

The province capital, Surkhet, had already got such a lab in the fiscal year, 2079/80. It has been operative for all nine districts.

The facility generates Rs 2 million in revenue annually.

Construction materials like sand, cement and pebbles are tested whether they meet quality and standards. Similarly, the facility determines the quality of blacktopped roads.