Salyan, May 21 -- The Rapti Highway has been closed for six hours daily for a week from Wednesday to facilitate the widening and blacktopping of the Chorkhola-Ramri road section in ward 3 of Kapurkot Rural Municipality, Salyan.

The Division Road Office Dang and the Salyan District Administration Office issued a notice announcing the closure, citing that regular vehicle movement was disrupting construction work at the road section.

Dipendra Bahadur Bista, chief of the Division Road Office Dang, said vehicular movement had prevented effective progress along the four-kilometre stretch, prompting the decision to halt traffic from 11 am to 5 pm daily.

He added that ongoing traffic had also damaged completed work, leading to delays. The clos...