{"id":360592,"date":"2023-08-07T20:31:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineradionepal.gov.np\/en\/?p=360592"},"modified":"2023-08-07T20:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:46:46","slug":"nagdhunga-sisnekhola-rescue-tunnel-construction-marks-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2023\/08\/07\/360592.html","title":{"rendered":"Nagdhunga-Sisnekhola rescue tunnel construction marks \u2018breakthrough\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Path clearance of the emergency tunnel (rescue tunnel) of Nagadhunga Sisnekhola tunnel has completed. Three years and seven months after the construction started, the emergency tunnel marked a &#8216;breakthrough&#8217; today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineradionepal.gov.np\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/HB-Ktm-20230807171839_IMG_5359-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/HB-Ktm-20230807171839_IMG_5359-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/HB-Ktm-20230807171839_IMG_5359-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/HB-Ktm-20230807171839_IMG_5359-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/HB-Ktm-20230807171839_IMG_5359-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/HB-Ktm-20230807171839_IMG_5359.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The break-through of Nagadhunga-Sisnekhola Tunnel was done in the presence of the Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Prakash Jwala, Japanese Ambassador to Nepal Kikuta Yutaka and other high officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineradionepal.gov.np\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/SS-Malekhu-IMG-20230807-WA0020-1024x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/SS-Malekhu-IMG-20230807-WA0020-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/SS-Malekhu-IMG-20230807-WA0020-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/SS-Malekhu-IMG-20230807-WA0020-1024x768-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of State for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Nanda Chapai, Director General of Roads Department Sushil Kumar Dhakal, Ministry Secretary Keshav Kumar Sharma, members of the House of Representatives were also present on the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consultancy Engineer Ramesh Prasad Koirala informed that although the main tunnel is yet to be opened, Dhading Kathmandu can be crossed from now on through the emergency tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineradionepal.gov.np\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/KB-Ktm-0U3A3667-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/KB-Ktm-0U3A3667-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/KB-Ktm-0U3A3667-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/KB-Ktm-0U3A3667-1024x683-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven cross passages have been placed in the two and a half kilometer long and four and a half meter wide tunne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven gates have been placed in the main tunnel to enter the emergency tunnel built along with the main tunnel to be used in case of an accident inside the tunnel or when the main tunnel is blocked due to other reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The length of the main tunnel of the project is 2,688 meters. As of Monday, the digging of 2,186 meters has been completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the initial contract agreement, this project should be completed by 26 April 2023, but the deadline for this project has been extended to 25 April 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years and seven months after the construction started, the emergency tunnel marked a &#8216;breakthrough&#8217; today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":360593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-360592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360596,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360592\/revisions\/360596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360592"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=360592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}