KATHMANDU – After the High Court cleared the way for widening the footpath, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City has resumed the work of widening the footpath in the New Road area.

Earlier, the road division office intervened in the work started by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City and confiscated the goods.

After the intervention of the Road Division Office, while hearing the petition filed by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City in the High Court Patan, the High Court issued an interim order not to stop the work of expanding the footpath on New Road saying that the urban roads will be under the local level.

After the joint bench of Judge Dhruvraj Nand and Prakash Kharel of the Patan High Court ordered not to implement the letter written by the Roads Division Office to the Kathmandu Metropolitan City to stop the expansion of the footpath in the New Road area, the Metropolitan City has resumed the work of footpath expansion.