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Road defects take toll on number of tourists visiting Lumbini

Kathmandu: Number of tourists visiting the Lumbini, enlisted in the World Heritage Site, started decreasing due to poor condition of Narayangadh-Butwal road section. According to the Lumbini Development Trust, at least one million domestic tourists used to visit Lumbini annually before 2019.

Member-Secretary of the Trust, Sanuraja Shakya, said that though country returned to normalcy after Coronavirus pandemic, around 600 thousand tourists visit Lumbini very year now. It is all because of road defects, he argued. Sharing that it took 13 hours to reach Kathmandu from Butwal in an office vehicle, he stressed the need for upgrading different roads to increase religious tourists. Though infrastructures were developed in Lumbini area, the tourists have been complaining about the problems, especially of the Narayangadh-Butwal road section, he mentioned.