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Before the year 2070 B.S., the daily life of the citizens of the coastal area of Bhimdatta municipality was tragic due to the floods in the Mahakali river every monsoon. Hundreds of bighas of land in Bhimadat Municipality-11 Bhujela, 12 Airi Odali, and Ward No. 13 Piparia area were turned into marshes due to flooding. Hundreds of families were displaced due to the flood of Mahakali.
But now, the coastal area of Mahakali has turned into a tourist destination. There is no limit to the happiness of the local residents when the area, which was always in danger of flooding, has become a tourist destination. The access road built along with the bridge is known as Viral Road, and the domestic tourists are flocking here.
After the construction of a six-lane black paper road from Gaddachauki to the dry port proposal site of Dodhara Chandni along with a four-lane concrete bridge with an investment of billions of rupees, the tragedy of floods has been removed here.
Recounting the past of being rescued by the security agencies during the flood and staying in a nearby school for weeks, the development of the area will improve the condition of the locals.
Even though the floods that occurred in October last year caused moderate damage to the roads here, the roads helped prevent floods from entering the settlements. At that time, the construction of the dam had not started because there was no management of stones for the construction of the pond. The construction company said that the access road was damaged without the dam.
In the past, the People's Embankment Office was active in protecting the settlements by constructing embankments in the coastal area from Bhujela to Piparia on the Mahakali River. In the past, due to lack of embankment, the river flowed from the houses of the locals even to the school. During the rainy season, the local administration's focus was on how to protect the people and settlements here.
Three islands will be built in the middle of the pond. It will be possible to come and go there by climbing a stone. All the work of the bridge, which is to be built at a cost of Rs. 3.66 billion, has progressed so that it can be completed within the next year.
Four ponds are being constructed on the north side of the bridge, two larger than one square kilometer and two on the south side of 0.3 square kilometers. Similarly, at a distance of about two and a half kilometers from the concrete bridge, there is the longest double-span suspension bridge in South Asia. Domestic and foreign tourists come here every day for sightseeing.
“If the road from the suspension bridge to the four-lane concrete bridge can be paved, it will be easier for the locals as well as the tourists. If only this road can be built, tourism activity will increase here", said Ram Bahadur Bohra, Ward President of Bhimdatta Municipality-13.
Although the citizens of the Mahakali coastal area have suffered for a long time, economic activity is increasing with the construction of the bridge. The agenda of making a dry port and a trilateral border has fueled the land business. If the dry port is developed as a trilateral border between Nepal-India and China, it will transform the Far West.
The process has been taken forward by proposing a dry port in two community forests across the concrete bridge in Dodharachandani Municipality-1. Similarly, there is a plan to extend the access road from Gaddachouki to Brahmadev to the north and connect the Mahakali corridor to Darchula via Jogbudha.
“The access road from Gaddachouki to the bridge under construction is running out of black paper. Six kilometers of road have been constructed out of eight kilometers of black paper. The bridge is important not only for traffic but also from the tourist point of view,” said Engineer Kishoreraj Pandey of Kumar CFEC JV, which is constructing a bridge on the Mahakali River.
"Construction of eye-shaped ponds by constructing dams on both sides (north and south) of the bridge is part of the package of the bridge", Once the construction of the pond is completed, the revenue of the local municipality will also increase,” he added._Rss
(photo credit: Janaboli )
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