Sunday, July 10, 2011

The Arniko Highway Project of Nepal

The project includes rehabilitation and sustainable road maintenance of the 115 km long Arniko Highway from Kathmandu to the Tibetan border minimising the environmental damage already caused before the start of the project. In most sections the road alignment is situated in fragile mountainous terrain.
The project approach was designed to give particular emphasis to:
  • improvement of the technical, organisational and environmental capacities of the Department of Roads;
  • support to the local engineering consultants and the contracting industry to increase their capacities in road rehabilitation and their competitivity to provide appropriate quality of services in a growing market;
  • rehabilitation and maintenance in difficult mountainous terrain, including pavement, slope stabilisation and river control works; and
  • building-up, running and finally privatising the Equipment Maintenance Centre, to ensure proper maintenance and repair of private and public construction equipment and the necessary training of the staff.
The project addressed these objectives through assisting the Department of Roads in undertaking the road rehabilitation works (institution building), and facilitating the construction works at site with private sector support.

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