Kathmandu, July 22
Locals living by the Kalanki-Naagdhunga road section of Prithvi Highway on Sunday morning staged a demonstration on the road protesting the delay in road maintenance.
They have demanded that the government make sincere efforts to repair the road at the earliest so that the vehicular movement along the key highway connecting the capital with the rest of the country will be smooth and locals will be relieved of dust and smoke created by vehicles in congestion.
In the protest, the locals carried placards that read “The government did not do, therefore we will do now”. Symbolically, they performed some construction jobs including pilling potholes on the street.
The demonstrators also demanded that the government take action against the contractors for their failure to complete the works on time.
Meanwhile, the demonstration also affected the traffic movement, both inward and outward, for some minutes.
