{"id":72964,"date":"2026-05-29T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/?p=72964"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:53:01","slug":"rs-37-46-billion-allocated-for-east-west-highway-275-road-bridges-to-be-constructed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/05\/29\/72964\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 37.46 billion allocated for East-West highway, 275 road bridges to be constructed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The government has allocated Rs 37.46 billion for the upgradation of the East-West Highway in the fiscal year 2083\u00f784. Finance Minister Dr. Yubaraj Khatiwada presenting the budget in the Federal Parliament on Friday. Likewise, Swarnim Wagle said that the expansion of the East-West Highway into four lanes was a priority. <\/p>\n<p>The government has set a target to upgrade the 1,028-km East-West highway into four lanes within the next five years. According to him, the Kamala-Kanchanpur and Narayangadh-Butwal sections would be upgraded within the current fiscal year. <\/p>\n<p>Likewise, 80-km Kakarbhitta-Lokahi, Kamala-Bagmati, Butwal-Gorusinghe and Dhankhola-Lamahi road sections would be upgraded next year. <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, 14 road upgradation projects will be started in Bagmati-Pathlaiya, Narayangadh-Hetauda and Gorusinge areas. <\/p>\n<p>The government has planned to blacktop around 1,000 kilometers of roads and construct 275 bridges in the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The government has allocated Rs 37.46 billion for the upgradation of the East-West Highway in the fiscal year 2083\u00f784. Finance Minister Dr. Yubaraj Khatiwada presenting the budget in the Federal Parliament on Friday. Likewise, Swarnim Wagle said that the expansion of the East-West Highway into four lanes was a priority. The government has set<a href=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/05\/29\/72964\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Rs 37.46 billion allocated for East-West highway, 275 road bridges to be constructed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,123,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-breaking-en","category-artha-khabar-policital-update-en","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sornimwagle.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72965,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72964\/revisions\/72965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/72957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}