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WB to give Nepal US$320 million grant for rural roads
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-08-22 11:15
The World Bank (WB) is to provide a grant of 320 million US dollars to Nepal
for the construction of rural roads and suspension bridges during the next five
years, state-run Radio Nepal reported Monday.
This is the largest grant assistance WB has provided to the country, the
report said.
The amount will be spent on a rural access reform and decentralization
project in the next five years by the Local Infrastructure Development and
Agriculture Road Department, it was informed at a program here.
Under the project, 800 km of all-weather rural road and 200 km of winter road
will be constructed, and 3,500 km of rural road will be repaired.
Some 350 suspension bridges will be constructed in the 13 districts where the
decentralized rural infrastructure and livelihood reform program has been
implemented and in 15 districts that do not have road links, according to the
department.
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