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Nepal Koshi Flood: No early traffic resumption

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Nepal Government officials made it clear to the parties represented in the Constituent Assembly that unless the flow of water decreased naturally or the damaged parts of the Koshi embankments were repaired at the earliest installing Belly Bridges at various locations along the ruptured highways was impossible.

The government officials who were appointed to assess the loss incurred by unprecedented flooding of the Koshi River in the Sunsari and Saptari Districts were briefing the leaders of the 25 Political Parties in the CA on Thursday, August 28, 2008 in the capital, Kathmandu.

“More than 90 per cent of the water is flowing through the breached route instead of its regular flow-path through the bridge, thus making it impossible to install temporary bridges in order to continue the flow of Traffic along the East-West highway”, told the government officials.

Shankar Prasad Sharma, the chief secretary at the Ministry of Water Resources informed that the 60 MW transmission line from India too was washed away by the flood causing increased daily load-shedding in the entire country.

The Nepal Electric Authority from last Wednesday has enforced 16.5 hours of load-shedding every day.

Posted on : 2008-08-29 09:30:05

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