Trial bridges have a significant impact on mobility and socioeconomic status in rural regions of Nepal. The construction of the trail bridges is the important transportation mobility of Nepal to enhance rural mobility. It is essential to establish an effective operation and maintenance (O&M) plan for the long-term sustainability of the trail bridges. Proper O&M mechanism has a significant impact on safe, secure, durable, and sustainable service in the community. In our context, it is very challenging due to a lack of proper technology, a proper management system, and a scarcity of resources. The study was focused on evaluating the implementation status of operation and maintenance of trail bridges in Mugum Karmarong Rural Municipality of Mugu district of Nepal. Quantitative and qualitative data have been collected to evaluate the operation and maintenance status of twenty bridges. The related officials, businessmen, teachers, students, local community members, user group members, health workers, and other stakeholders of Trail Bridge were considered for the survey. The design guidelines, published literature, and other related guidelines of the Government of Nepal (GoN) were analyzed for the research. The convenient survey was conducted from sampled respondents along with three focus group discussions in three trail bridge projects. Further, key informants were interviewed comprising different stakeholders involved in the project planning and implementation process from central to the local level. The quantitative and quantitative data has been adopted and analyzed using a simple statistical method has performed for quantitative data analysis, and the content analysis method is used to interpret qualitative findings. The study concluded that the overall implementation status of O&M of trail bridges in Mugum Karmarong Municipality is disappointing and needs immediate operation and maintenance. The study indicates that proper O&M of trail bridges have a significant reduction in time to reach the school and health service is directly related to increased enrollment in schools and increased health facilities in communities, respectively. The income status and livelihood of people in communities have improved due to an increase in mobility and market accessibility from the operation of trail bridges . The output of this study will be the milestone for the proper operation, and management system development for sustainable, reliable, and cost-effective infrastructure development in the country.
Performance Assessment is the tools which give clear indication about the construction status of the project which finds out the strength and weakness of project implementation and examines the effectiveness of technical social and environmental parameters of the Road construction project. Strengthening the National Rural Transport program (SNRTP) is introduce to fulfill the aim of GON to provide all-weather road access to all Village Development Committee (VDC) by gradually upgrading the District Road Core Network (DRCN) and providing proper maintenance. Assessment of the project's measured the project output, budget, time deadlines, quality, deliverables, and specifications. The study was focus on finding out different stage, parameters, process used in road construction project and checking compliance of Technical, social and environmental parameters with prescribed design standard. Geometric parameters, road safety and maintenance, bio-engineering and plantation works, implementation on VCDP and GAP was not found as per requirements. Project was completed 18 months behind the original completion date so the project management has failure to control the time overrun.
Community participation and collaboration among tourism stakeholders are considered key to promote sustainable tourism planning and development in the destinations. This study aims to critically analyse the role and context of community collaboration with tourism stakeholders to promote sustainable community development in the case of Annapurna Sanctuary Trail (AST) in the Annapurna Conservation Area of Nepal. It has adopted multiple tools of data collection such as household’s survey, key informants interview, participant observation, informal discussion with local residents and archival research for examining the role and context of community collaboration with tourism stakeholders in settlements around AST. The survey results revealed that the current approach of ecotourism development is tenuous and does not truly satisfy the key objectives of ecotourism i.e. fostering inclusive participation and stakeholder’s collaboration. Although tourism has brought significant impacts on the local communities; the extent of these impacts is usually different with difference in the location of households, their level of interaction and exposure with tourists, their capacity and power to involve and influence the participation and collaboration process, and their education, skills, and financial resources. Overall, the existing approach to ecotourism planning is not able to implement the effective and efficient form of collaboration, and hence local community specifically farmers receive minimal benefits from the tourism. It is suggested to empower and enhance the collaborative capacity of local residents to actively participate and influence the planning process for receiving maximum benefits and promoting sustainable community development.
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