Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has inaugurated the newly installed Lumbini cable car service Thursday.
Prime Minister Dahal formally launched the cable car service by unveiling a copper plaque at the bottom station located at Golpark Bamghat in Butwal Sub-metropolitan City-3, Rupandehi district.
The cable car is around three kilometres long and it is operated from Golpark Bamghat to Basantapur in Tinau Rural Municipality-3 of Palpa district. It is the first cable car in Lumbini Province.
Basantapur, now accessible by cable car, has Kamakhyadevi temple, Bhagwati temple, Ganesh temple, Kailash Parbat, and other structures like pond, stone spout. The place has now become a religious tourism destination.
An agreement has been reached among the cable car company, Butwal sub-metropolis and Tinau RM for the daily operation of the cable car service. The IME Group constructed and brought the cable car service into operation on its investment. This is the third cable car run by IME Group.
Chairperson of Lumbini Cable Car, Chandra Prasad Dhakal, said with the operation of the cable car, a new religious and tourism destination has been added in Basantapur.
“We became successful to construct and bring the Lumbini cable car into operation due to the love, goodwill and support of the federal government, Lumbini Province government, local government and local residents,” Dhakal shared.
The cable car connecting Rupandehi and Palpa districts is expected to help in the economic and social transformation of the districts including Nawalparasi, Kapilvastu and overall Lumbini Province.
This project will be a milestone to fulfil the wishes of political leaders and people of Lumbini Province in making Rupandehi the financial capital of Lumbini Province, mentioned Chair Dhakal.
He also announced a new campaign for the construction of cable car religious tourism circuit. In the first phase, Rs 1.5 billion has been invested in the construction of cable cars. The total cost of the cable car project along with the resort is Rs 5 billion.
Restaurants have already been constructed at the top station of the cable car while a hotel, children’s playground, skywalk, and zipline are under construction. The bottom station is 230 metres above sea level and the top station is 940m above sea level. There are 25 gondolas in the Lumbini cable car.
By cable car, one can reach the top station within 10 minutes from the bottom station.
