Kathmandu, Apr. 1: Minister for Works and Transport and Water Resources Khum Bahadur Khadka today laid the foundation stone for the construction of a bridge on the Jaranku Mahadev Rivulet at Dharmasthali Village Development Committee (vdc).

The bridge to be constructed at a cost of around Rs 1,802,000 with the cooperation of the Ministry of Works and Transport, Kathmandu district development committee (ddc) and Kabhresthali and other adjoining  vdcs will be 17 metre long. The construction work will be completed in two and a half months.

Minister Khadka, addressing a programme organised by Kabhresthali vdc after laying the  foundation stone, said that the present government was committed for the all round development endeavour of the country.

Minister Khadka said that the development that had taken place during the period of thirty years of the erstwhile regime and ten years after the restoration of democracy should be evaluated by visiting various villages as it had been rumoured that there had been no development during the last ten years.

Minister Khadka said that all the party should join hands and move ahead to prevent the increasing violence and terror and safeguard democracy.

Mp mangal Siddhi Manandhar said that CPN-UML believed that the development endeavour should be carried out from the local level.

Former mp rajendra Shrestha said that all the political parties should make joint effort in the development of the country without any discrimination.

Member of Kathmandu Development Committee Keshav Raj Khadka presided over the function.