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The Nepalese Army has urged one and all not to doubt on the completion of the Kathmandu-Tarai/Madhes Fast-track Project, a project of national pride and strategic importance, in the stipulated time.
Chief of the Fast-track Project and Lieutenant General Yogendra Bahadur Khand claimed at a news conference at the Army Headquarters here today that the Army was capable of completing the project within the deadline provided there is constructive cooperation and goodwill from all quarters, no matter how challenging it might be from the technical aspect.
Stating that the works like levelling the hills and mounds and filling up soil in the ditches were being carried out expeditiously in line with the road demarcation, he said the project works have been forwarded on the basis of work plan and schedule.
It was also shared on the occasion that the Nepalese Army was working on the project taking the trust of the government and the people that the Army can complete the works fast and at low cost while maintaining the quality as an opportunity to create history.
A Korean consultant, Soosong Consultants, has been selected for preparing the detailed project report of the Fast-track.
Lieutenant General Khand said that an agreement for the construction of the project would be signed with the company within this month and the DPR would be ready in four months of the signing of the agreement.
The DPR would be prepared at an estimated cost of about Rs 101.5 million. It is believed that the 76-kilometre fast track will link Kathmandu with the Tarai geographically and emotionally.
The total stretch has been divided into 10 sections and works are being done through 28 contractors.
The Nepalese Army has built 1,114 kilometres of roads and 29 bridges in various parts of the country. The Army is currently constructing 526 kilometres of roads including the Fast-track.
Butwal-Province No 5 is ranked fourth in view of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contribution, the central bank said.
According to a report released by the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the contribution of the province 5 in the national GDP is 17.5 per cent. It is said that the report was prepared after conducting province-level GDP and per capita income of the fiscal year 2017/18 on the basis of overall human development report-2014.
Releasing the report in Butwal on Sunday, Executive Director of the Nepal Rastra Bank Nar Bahadur Thapa said that province no 5 is in the fourth position as per the annual capita income.
Per capita income of the province is 868 US dollar. However, the report shows that the province is in the forefront in view of access to commercial banks. Out of 109 local levels in the province, 106 local levels have access to commercial banks.
As per the data, province no 5 has contributed 16.9 per cent in the country’s agriculture sector, 10.4 per cent in the industrial output and 11.7 per cent in service sector. The province has 15.5 per cent of the country’s total population.
Photo taken on July 26, 2016 shows the Yuhe River site in Dongcheng District, Beijing. [Photo/Qianlong]
Located in Dongcheng District of Beijing, Yuhe River was built for water transport of grain to the capital in 1291. It was called Tonghui River during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and then renamed to Yuhe River from Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The river gradually dried up in the decades after 1918 and it was completely buried in 1956. In 2005, the Yuhe River protection project was formally approved as one of the pilot projects of protecting cultural relics in Beijing.
In 2009, the Dongcheng District completed the first phase of the project. It restored a part of the Yuhe River which runs 480 meters from the east of Di’anmen Bridge, along the south side of Maoer Hutong, Dongbuyaqiao Hutong and Di’anmen East Street, and finally to Ping’an Street with a width of 18 meters and depth of one meter.
In 2014, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was included in the list of World Cultural Heritages. At that time, the second phase of the project was launched to restore the Yuhe River from Ping’an Street to Beiheyan Street with a total length of 600 meters. Considering the river was too deep and few cultural relics were found, the project staff landfilled the river and built landscape parks on the river instead of recovering its original appearance.
Recently, a “water diversion across the street” project has been approved to allow the water of the river restored by the first phase of the Yuhe River protection project to flow into the river of the second phase of the project so as to connect the south and north parts of the Yuhe River by water.
The project is likely to have some difficulties in construction as it involves the subway Line 6 under Ping’an Street and the cultural relic of Chengqing sluice on the north side, and the project is expected to start in spring and complete in the summer of 2018.
After the project, the south and north parts of Yuhe River will be connected to form a one-kilometer-long landscape water system, which can fully revive the beautiful scenery of “water flowing across streets” in Beijing 700 years ago.
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Paper-made dresses designed by students showcased at Central China's Hunan University of Technology. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Students at Hunan University of Technology recently held a special paper costume exhibition in Central China's Hunan province. All costumes were made of dozens of different paper materials such as wrapping paper, discarded books and newspapers, and even toilet-paper. As freshmen majoring in clothing and dress design, the students spent about two months designing and preparing for the show with 12 different categories such as cartoon, classic, and trendy. The exhibition aims to boost environmental protection awareness.