{"id":418464,"date":"2025-10-19T12:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=418464"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:36:17","slug":"rajduwali-section-of-mechi-highway-reopens-after-14-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/10\/19\/418464.html","title":{"rendered":"Rajduwali section of Mechi Highway reopens after 14 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ilam:<\/strong> The Mechi Highway, blocked by a recent landslide has reopened after 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>According to , Sunita Nepal, Chief District Officer of Ilam said the Maikhola\u2013Rajduwali section was cleared and reopened for traffic from 9 pm last night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-418468 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/mechi-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/mechi-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/mechi-2-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/mechi-2-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Pawan Bhattarai, Division Chief of the Road Division Office, said the road was reopened after continuous efforts by the Road Division, local residents, and security personnel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-418470 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Mechi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Mechi.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Mechi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Mechi-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>He requested that only one large vehicle pass at a time in the landslide area due to remaining risks.<\/p>\n<p>The reopening eases travel for Ilam residents and improves connectivity to Jhapa from Panchthar and Taplejung.<\/p>\n<p>A temporary diversion over the Jogmai River was constructed to restore traffic, though mudslide risks remain.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities have urged caution when using damaged roads and bridges.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to , Sunita Nepal, Chief District Officer of Ilam said the Maikhola\u2013Rajduwali section was cleared and reopened for traffic from 9 pm last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":418468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-418464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418464"}],"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=418464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418471,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418464\/revisions\/418471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418464"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=418464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}