Land belonging to Melamchi project encroached upon

Kathmandu - The land acquired for laying down the water supply pipeline of the Melamchi Water Supply Project has been encroached upon. However, the bodies concerned have not paid attention to this. Land was acquired along a stretch of about five kilometres for the purpose of bulk supply system from Sundarijal of Gokarneshwor municipality-1. Main supply pipeline of 1,400 millimetres diameter has been installed underground along a width of about 25 metres of the land acquired for this purpose.

It is on this 25 metres wide stretch of the land of the project where encroachment is taking place at various places. The project's this land has been found encroached upon at nearly a dozen points at the municipality's ward no. 1, 2 and 4. Cement pillars have been constructed on the right and left-hand side of this 25-metre wide stretch right at the time of laying the bulk supply pipeline to mark off the area.