PM Deuba sees need of utility corridor for coordinated development

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Apr 12, 2022
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Kathmandu: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has underscored the need of formulating a bill on urban development along with utility corridor to carry out the development and construction works in a coordinated manner.

He also called for an end to the tendency of one utility agency constructing structures and the next one dismantling it after few days for lack of coordination.

The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating a consultative seminar on the Formulation of National Urban Policy, the Urban Development Act and the Utility Corridor Act here today. The seminar is organized by the Ministry of Urban Development.

He said pilot project would be initiated in some big cities from the coming fiscal year for implementation of the concept of utility corridor.

The PM viewed that it is necessary to maintain population balance through the Tarai Madhes-focussed Consolidated Urban Development Programme. “It (the programme) will be expanded to the municipalities in the mountainous and hilly region to discourage migration from the districts of these regions to the Tarai Madhes,” he said.