INFRASTRUCTURE OF NEPAL

Nepal is a landlocked country. Northen two-third of the country contains hill and mountainous terrain thus making difficulties for building road and other infrastructure. Accourding to 2003 survey there is only 8500km of paved road and 22 district out of 75 lack road links. Most of a Goods used to come from india but there is only one reliable road route from india to kathmandu valley. As the Nepal is a landlocked country, only practical seaport of entry for goods bound for Kathmandu is Calcutta in India. While compare to Sea and road routes of transportation aviation is in better state with 48 airport with frequent flight. Besides having landlocked, rugged geography, few tangible natural resources and poor infrastructure, the long-running civil war is also a factor in stunting the economic growth. However now days Nepal’s Infrastructure has been developing at a very high rate. The main areas under development in Nepal Infrastructure are commerce, Trade and industry. Medium and large scale industries are being set up in the urban regions of Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Rajbiraj, Janakpur, Terai areas, Birgnj, Nepalgunj, Butwal, Pokhra and Hetauda. Infrastructure at rural area is also developing due to the initiation taken by the GRID or Group for Rural Infrastructure Development in Nepal by providing better options to the rural population for a higher rate of income generation. This includes providing funds to the rural development centers for setting up of sub-projects in order to upgrade the rural transport system, river crossing structures and roads, mule trails and tracks. The Nepal Infrastructure upgrading program also focuses on strengthening and building social mobilization and rural development.