ARUGHAT, March 19 -- Stakeholders took to the streets and obstructed the Kathmandu-Benighat-Gorkha road on Monday to protest against the delays done by the Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project in determining rates of land that the project will be acquiring in Arughat, Khahare, and Arkhet area.

The project's water reservoir is expected to inundate landmass in these and other areas of the district when it comes into operation. However, residents in some of these areas claim that the project authorities have not yet informed the rates at which the project will acquire their land.During the protest on Monday, protestors shut down Arughat Bajar located on the border of Dhading and Gorkha districts affecting normal activities in the town. They obs...