United Kingdom (UK) has agreed to provide financial help worth $55 million (Rs 3.74 billion) to help the government link all of rural Nepal with roads.
Shahid Malik, British Minister for International Development for Asia, on Saturday at a programme organized in Kavre said that the UK has agreed to provide $55 million for the construction of rural roads over the next four years in various districts of Nepal.
Roads are a top priority for poor people, and a vital part of the efforts of government and all the political parties to end poverty in Nepal, he said.
"Together, and with other donors, we will help to bring more than five million people nearer to a road, and help connect all the remaining district centers to the national road network," he further added.
Malik also informed that his government along with donors will provide an additional $550 million to upgrade almost 2,500 kilometers of rural roads. He hoped that this coupled with government funds of around $ 400 million will help in connecting all of rural Nepal.
Accompanied with Dev Gurung, minister for Local Development, Paul Heytens, the country director of Asian Development Bank, and Susan Goldmark, the country director of the World Bank, and other high-ranking government officials, the UK minister inspected a section of a rural road constructed with British aid in Kavre, around 50 km from Kathmandu.
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