KATHMANDU: Minister for Water Supply Bina Magar has said that the Melamchi Drinking Water Project will be completed soon.
Speaking at the meeting of the House of Representatives on Monday, Minister Magar said that now is the time to end all the questions raised about the project.
Minister Magar informed the Parliament that the Ministry is preparing to announce the date of the inauguration of the Melamchi Drinking Water Project by completing the physical construction in the current fiscal year.
Replying to questions raised by the lawmakers about the budget allocation for the Ministry of Water Supply for the coming year, Minister Magar said, “It is time to end all the questions raised about the project. I would like to inform that we are preparing to make public the time of the inauguration of the project.”
Stating that the project has given only hope and despair to the people of the Kathmandu Valley for the past two decades, Minister Magar said that it is coming to an end now.
“It’s time to end the disappointments that project has risen over the past two decades,” she said.
Minister Magar said that the construction of the physical infrastructure of the project would be completed in the current fiscal year and its distribution would be arranged in the coming fiscal year.
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