Mugu, Feb. 22 -- Construction of a cycle track around Rara, the country's largest lake in Mugu district, is moving at a snail's pace.

With the objective to promote tourism, the Karnali provincial government in 2018 planned to construct the cycle track and released the budget. But the budget got frozen for two consecutive fiscal years since work on the project couldn't be initiated due to a delay in obtaining permissions from the Rara National Park and the provincial forest ministry.

The provincial Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment released a Rs452.9 million budget in the fiscal year of 2021-22 for infrastructure development in the Rara area. The division forest office in Mugu signed a project agreement with Khani Tho...