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Kathmandu Tuesday June 12, 2001 Jestha 30, 2058.
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Jajarkot-Dolpa
road suffers setback
Post Report
JAJARKOT, June 11 - Construction of the rural road from
Jajarkot to Dolpa has suffered a setback after the contractor failed to bring rice in time
to run the "food for work" programme to construct the road.
The workers engaged in road construction refused to work in
credit and many more people who had thronged here with the hope of getting job are also
returning home.
The preliminary plan was to construct the road until the
2,000 quintals of coarse rice set aside for the road construction lasted in this fiscal
year, but the contractor has not transported even 1,000 quintals of rice so far. Half of
the rice is given to porters who transport the rice on their back.
Contractor Pawan Agrawal has received contract to buy
foodgrain and also transport it to 30 districts. When the workers refused to accept the
750 quintals of rice of low quality as it did not tally with the sample shown to them, the
contractor himself came and returned only 52 quintals. The famine-stricken people were
forced to eat the remaining low quality rice.
Until now only five kilometres of the motorable road has
been constructed with the 750 quintals and additional 250 quintals in credit from Khalanga
Shanti Chautara VDC ward No. 9 to Kalegaon, secretary of the Road Construction Committee
Dipak Shah said. He said that workers refused to work after they failed to receive the 250
quintals of rice.
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