रोड नेट्वोर्क डिभेलपमेन्त प्रोजेक्ट (RNDP)

Road Network Development Project (RNDP)

The loan agreement for Road Network Development Project (RNDP), Loan No 1876 NEP (SF), was signed on the December 2002 between Kingdom of Nepal and Asian Development Bank. It had also been agreed that a part of RNDP is financed under grant assistance of United Kingdom through Department for International Development (DFID). The total cost of RNDP (excluding project appraisal done by ADB/Manila under Technical Assistance, project management of Project Directorate ADB of DoR, cost of resettlement/land acquisition and excluding other contingencies like escalation and interest) has been estimated to be 55.8 M US$, which is about 4.2 billion NRs.

 

S.N

Description of Work

Estimated
Cost

ADB Loan

DFID Grant

HMG
finance

Contract
nos/type

A

East West Highway Pavement Strengthening Component

i

 Belbari-Chauharwa: 140 Km

-

1.40

1 ICB

ii

 Damak -Gaunganj: 22 Km

2.00

1.60

-

0.40

2 LCB

iii

 Dolalghat -Chautara: 25 Km

2.50

2.00

 

0.50

3 LCB

iv

 Pauwal Bhanjyang -Phidim: 28 Km

3.20

2.56

-

0.64

4 LCB

  Hile- Banastapur: 26 Km

2.80

 

2.24

0.56

3 LCB

 

C

 Feeder Road Construction Component          

i

 Hile- Basantapur-Khandbari: 96 Km

9.20

-

7.36

1.84

RAP

 

D

 Performance Based Maintenance Component 4  Stretches: approximately 75 km each

4.00

2.60

-

1.40

4 LCB

 

E

 Kakadbhitta 10 Km. Sufficient width and strength  to handle commercial traffic and provide better  access to other facilities like custom, freight  handling etc

1.50

1.20

-

0.30

1 LCB

             

F

 Road Safety/ Axle load Component :
 Road Safety in project roads, Procurement and  Installation of 10 weighing bridges

0.40

0.30

-

0.10

0.10

             

G

 Poverty Intervention Component

0.50

0.4

 

0.10

RAP

 
   Consulting Services

5.7

5.7

-

0.00

-

             
   Total

55.80

35.56

9.60

10.64

 

Project Sites (RNDP)

The Stretches to be included in Performance based Maintenance Contract have been surveyed and finalized which are the following parts of East-West Highway.

1. Hetauda-Narayani Bridge, Kohalpur-Karnali
2. Karnali-Sivaganga (15 Km east of Attaria),
3. Siva Ganga-Gadda Chauki