PYUTHAN, March 17 -- Pyuthan is the oldest and one of the most well-facilitated municipalities of the district. However, there are some villages in the municipality, which are yet to be connected to roads. Some of the roads which were constructed years ago are now in a dilapidated state. Instead of waiting for the local unit or the government authority to construct the roads, locals of Pyuthan-3, Sepung, have started constructing their roads using traditional equipment.

The locals do not have dozers or excavators but that did not stop them from constructing a road for themselves. Carrying spades and other equipment they started digging the roads. Recently, government banned the use of dozers for projects with budgets less than Rs 10 mill...