Deadline approaching, progress on government plan to develop Burtibang as model city dismal

It is part of a 2011 plan to develop 10 ‘model cities’ along the Mid-Hill Highway within 15 years to mitigate growing outmigration from the hills.

Burtibang in Baglung district is one of the 10 places along the Mid-Hill Highway that the government planned to develop as ‘model cities’.