India and Nepal Sign MoU to Construct Bridge Over Mahakali River
India and Nepal, early in February 2022, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the cons truction of a motorable bridge over the Mahakali River connecting Dharchula (India) with Dharchula (Nepal), under Indian grant assistance.
The MoU was signed by the Indian Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra and Nepal’s Secretary, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Rabindranath Shreshtha in the presence of Transport Minister Renu Kumari Yadav.
The bridge is about 110-metre and is the second motor bridge on the India-Nepal border in Uttara khand. The other one is the Banbasa bridge in Champawat, Uttarakhand.
About the MoU:
- India will bear all the cost of constructing the bridge and preparation of a detailed project report for the bridge has already been completed and the construction work of the bridge will start soon and will be completed within three years.
- The project will improve cross-border connectivity between Nepal’s Sudur Paschim province and India’s Uttarakhand across the Mahakali river where close people-to-people links exist between communities on both sides of the border.
This is inline with the priority shared by both the governments to expand cross-border connectivity for Streamlining commercial, cultural and people-to-people exchanges.
