Kathmandu, 3 October: Seventy percent construction works of an International Convention Centre (ICC) with seating capacity for three thousand people at Godavari Municipality-3 has been completed.
The Department of Urban Development and Building Construction under the Ministry of Urban Development is constructing the ICC.
The construction should have been completed in April as planned but the project could not move forward smoothly due to various reasons, including harsh weather, according project manager Mahesh Bhatta. The works on the project were also hampered due to the global coronavirus pandemic. Works could not be carried out from April to mid-August due to the risk of Covid-19 pandemic.
“Although the government has directed the construction company to complete all the works by November after extending the construction deadline by six months considering the pandemic, we will be able to complete the works only by January 2021,” project manager Bhatta said.
The ICC is spread in an area of 60 thousand square feet. It will be a three-storied building. The estimated cost is is Rs 658 million 165 thousand 459.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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