Kathmandu. Khajura Rural Municipality of Banke district has annulled the contract agreement signed with a contractor for failing to complete the project on time.

Chief Administrative Officer of Khajura Rural Municipality, Dil Bahadur Poudel, said that the contractor has cancelled the contract agreement for five projects as the progress of the construction works was not satisfactory, improvement was not visible even after a long time and contractors were not willing to complete the projects. According to him, all the five contracts signed with Aman Construction, Gulariya-5, Bardiya for the construction of projects in different wards of the rural municipality have been annulled.

A contract agreement was signed with Aman Construction, Gulariya-5, Bardiya on February 25, 2020 to blacktop around 500 meters of road at Khajura Rural Municipality-4. Although the company had signed an agreement to complete the construction by June 15, 2021, the work has not been completed yet.

The road has been dilapidated again due to lack of blacktopping of the road though gravel and gravel were laid under the project. Plans to construct the road from NIC Bank, which was awarded the contract by Aman Construction, to Manakamana, to the house of Gopal Singh Ale to Lal Bahadur Rajali’s house, and to upgrade the road from Bigaun number 90 to 105 are also incomplete for years.

The municipality has decided to cancel all the five contracts. All the contracts are from Aman Construction. Chief Administrative Officer Poudel said that the local government had issued a public notice on November 18 asking why it should not be blacklisted by annulling the contract as the progress of the construction work was not satisfactory, improvement was not visible even after a long time and the contractors were not moving towards completing the work.

According to him, the contract agreement with Aman Construction, Gulariya-Bardiya has been terminated as it could not provide credible basis to proceed with the construction work as per the agreement within the stipulated period after the issuance of the public notice.