{"id":413211,"date":"2025-07-18T12:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=413211"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:03:46","slug":"kathmandu-ring-road-expansion-gains-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/07\/18\/413211.html","title":{"rendered":"Kathmandu ring road expansion gains momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-413213 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/594cf56f-58cd-4be4-a4ef-309859b85fea-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/594cf56f-58cd-4be4-a4ef-309859b85fea-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/594cf56f-58cd-4be4-a4ef-309859b85fea-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/594cf56f-58cd-4be4-a4ef-309859b85fea-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/594cf56f-58cd-4be4-a4ef-309859b85fea-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/594cf56f-58cd-4be4-a4ef-309859b85fea-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"><strong>July 18, Kathmandu:<\/strong> The Infrastructure Development Committee of the House of Representatives reviewed progress on the Kathmandu Ring Road expansion.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\"> The detailed project report is complete, and construction has begun. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\">To ease traffic congestion in the Kathmandu Valley, the government is exploring new policies, prioritising contracts only for feasible projects. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\">It is also drafting laws to remove development hurdles. This year, the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport terminated 120 delayed contracts to ensure timely completion. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274\">Lawmakers stressed controlling dust and potholes on the Bhaktapur-Thimi section, urging faster expansion. The committee directed the ministry to ensure quality and timely completion of the Ring Road and expedite highway projects connecting two districts. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 18, Kathmandu: The Infrastructure Development Committee of the House of Representatives reviewed progress on the Kathmandu Ring Road expansion. The detailed project report is complete, and construction has begun. To ease traffic congestion in the Kathmandu Valley, the government is exploring new policies, prioritising contracts only for feasible projects. It is also drafting laws &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":413212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,8,3,6,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-413211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-featured","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413211"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413214,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413211\/revisions\/413214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413211"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=413211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}