Kathmandu, April 17 : A meeting of the executives of Helambu Rural Municipality in Sindhupalchowk district has asked the concerned authority to temporarily halt the construction works of Melamchi Water Supply Project in the view of the outbreak of COVID-19.
Since the materials for the much-awaited project have to be ferried to the construction site through this rural municipality, the locals here were worried of contracting the deadly infection as the vehicles continued moving through their locality. The labourers, amid the lockdown, had returned to work at the Melamchi Water Project in the first phase of the lockdown after the government had allowed operation of the mega project by meeting the stipulated health standards.
Chair of the Rural Municipality, Nimal Gyalzen Sherpa, shared that vehicles related to the water project were barred from entering their rural municipalities after the circulation from the District Administration Office, Sindhupalchowk on the last Wednesday. The move was made in a bid to contain the spread of the deadly infection.
People’s movements in the rural municipality have been prohibited while the rural municipality has forbidden its staffers to travel out of their rural municipalities except in the cases of urgent works.
