By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, June 2: Like during the first wave of coronavirus pandemic last year, the second wave of the pandemic has slowed down the work on the Daharhara project, especially after prohibitory order came into effect.
That is mainly because of the shortage of manpower. The work has been halted since the first week of May.
Raju Man Manadhar, an expert at the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), said that the reconstruction work had been moving at snail’s pace because manpower were in short supply.
He added that most of the workers had left the Kathmandu Valley for their hometowns in the wake of the prohibitory order which came into force some one month ago.
“As a result, only a few workers are seen working at the construction site these days,” he said, adding, “A team of workers brought by the contractors has also not come to the site because of the fear of the virus.”
He said that everybody needed family support in hard times such as this so the workers had left the site to be with their loved ones.
Though most of the reconstruction work has completed, works on the triple basement, four-storey museum, roof-top garden, renovation and conservation of Sundhara water spout and keeping the old Dharahara in glass frame are yet to be done.