KATHMANDU: If you travel the under-construction Chabahil-Sankhu road section, you will witness dust, smoke and heaps of garbage strewn everywhere along the road. The locals are bearing the brunt of wretched road condition. The hardest-hit are the traffic police due to sorry state of affairs of the road.
“There is traffic mess as the raw materials including gravel meant for road construction are piled up in the middle part of the road. There is no alternative to whistle-blowing to remove traffic congestion. We need to get unmasked for blowing whistle every time risking our health”,Samir Dahal, a traffic police said.
Hridayesh Sapkota, traffic police chief at Metropolitan City Police Circle Bouddha, said, “We are on road from dawn to dusk. Traffic police even go beyond recognition due to dust. We are prone to common cold, cough, allergy and lungs related complications because of high exposure to dust”.
A total of 42 traffic police personnel are on daily duty in Bouddha area, informed Sapkota. Particularly, the traffic police deputed in the area of Sankhu and Bouddha are more vulnerable to dust. The road widening drive here has been put in place since a long time back but it seems to be time-consuming.
Traffic police are performing their duty on the road section for 20 hours a day which has put them at higher risks, said traffic police head constable Bal Krishna Pant.
It is still uncertain when the road will come to a smooth shape and the people and traffic police get liberation from the troubled road, though the Kathmandu Valley Road Widening Project said it would complete the construction soon.
The road section has seen all-pervasive chaos with scattered and uncoordinated works on drainage construction, road expansion and gravel placement.The road structure has not come to a smooth shape in the long interval of time.
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