SOLUKHUMBU, March 22 -- After decades of isolation, the Khumbupasanglhyamu Rural Municipality will be connected to the national road network by this fiscal year.

Of the eight RMs in Solukhumbu, this is the only one that is yet to be linked by road network, a task that the local body plans to conquer by this fiscal year.

The road will go up to Khari rivulet, Lakpa Tshering Sherpa, spokesperson of the Khumbupasanglhyamu rural municipality said. "We won't be exaggerating if we say the road has reached under the foothills of Mount Everest," he added.

At present, vehicles ply from Salleri, the district headquarters to Kumburi.

The road's construction costs will be shared by two municipalities -- Madhyadudhkoshi and Khumbupasanglhyamu.

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