Unnecessary road projects in rural villages in Baglung causing floods and landslides

The Infrastructure Development Office opened two new tracks in the last month of the last fiscal year to avoid budget freeze, say locals.

Unplanned construction of rural roads in Jaimini Municipality Ward No 1, Baglung, has exposed several settlements in the municipality at high risk of floods and landslides. The need to spend the allocated budget under infrastructure development before the end of the fiscal year saw the local government initiating two road construction projects last fiscal year alone.