Salyan, June 8 -- The Rapti Highway has been closed daily for six hours from Sunday to allow road upgrading and blacktopping works along the Chorkhola-Ramri section in ward 3 of Kapurkot Rural Municipality, Salyan district.

The closure was announced through a public notice issued by the Road Division Office in Dang and the District Administration Office in Salyan. According to the notice, the road will remain closed daily from 11am to 5pm until June 15

The Road Division Office said that regular traffic on the Chorkhola-Ramri stretch had been hampering the effectiveness and timeliness of the ongoing roadwork.

Dipendra Bahadur Bista, chief of the Road Division, said that the planned construction work could not progress as scheduled due t...