{"id":430576,"date":"2026-05-29T21:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=430576"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:45:24","slug":"butwal-pokhara-road-section-to-be-upgraded-as-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/05\/29\/430576.html","title":{"rendered":"Butwal-Pokhara road section to be upgraded as expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Gandaki: <\/strong>The government is going to upgrade the Butwal-Pokhara section of Siddhartha Highway as an expressway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"855\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Butwal-Pokhara.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-430577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Butwal-Pokhara.png 855w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Butwal-Pokhara-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Butwal-Pokhara-768x407.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finance Minister Dr Swarnim Wagle said this while presenting the budget for the fiscal year 2026\/27 at the joint meeting of the Federal Parliament today. He said that the ongoing work of Siddhababa Tunnelway will be completed within the next fiscal year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is mentioned in the budget that construction of a four-lane road from Anbukhaireni in Tanahun to Pokhara under Prithvi Highway will be completed soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, the construction of the Mugling-Ambukhaireni section will start soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 40 kilometres of road under the Nagdhunga-Mugling section will be upgraded, and the Nagdhunga tunnel will be put into operation from next July. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finance Minister Wagle shared that Rs 6.55 billion has been allocated for these projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandaki: The government is going to upgrade the Butwal-Pokhara section of Siddhartha Highway as an expressway. Finance Minister Dr Swarnim Wagle said this while presenting the budget for the fiscal year 2026\/27 at the joint meeting of the Federal Parliament today. He said that the ongoing work of Siddhababa Tunnelway will be completed within the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":430577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[806,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-430576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430576"}],"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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430578,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430576\/revisions\/430578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430576"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=430576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}