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Kangpar road plan remains changed

3 January 2009

The Public Works Department (PWD) has declined the former Kangpar Gup Penjor’s petition to consider retaining the original Kangpar feeder road plan. While his petition stated that the original route passing through Bedengphu would benefit more villagers, the people from Thrimshing and Khamey put up a separate petition favouring the realigned route.

According to sources, the people of Bedengphu urged the former Gup to visit the PWD office in Thimphu to submit the petition. They bore the Gup’s travel expenses.

The works division told the Gup that the realigned route would benefit more villages while the original route would be lengthier and mostly pass through forests.

The division also told him that the realigned road would save resources as it would be shorter. “People from Thrimshing, Bongzor and Tsangpo have submitted a petition to PWD stating their favour for the realigned rote,” said Pema Wangdi from Thrimshing.

While a feeder road built according to the original plan would benefit only 28 households from Bedengphu, the realigned route would benefit more than 300 households in Thrimshing Gewog as well as several households in Kangpar.

According to the original plan, some 16 km of the road passes through forests. “The realigned route passes through the villages and it would obviously benefit the villagers,” said a villager from Tsangpo. “The road would touch the villages like Pasakha, Madewa and Zordung.” Now, the people of Thrimshing deny that the road plan had been changed by the DPT government. “DPT did not change the road plan,” a villager from Thrimshing said.

“It was we the people who wanted to realign the road, not DPT.” Meanwhile, villagers from Thrimshing say that, if a bridge is constructed over Nyera Ama river in Bedengphu according to the original road plan, it would benefit only Bedengphu. But a bridge over Brunshari river and Nyera Ama river would connect Pedung, Madewa and Yemkhar.

BY TEMPA WANGDI

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