Kathmandu, Aug. 18
Reconstruction of the Balgopaleshwar Temple at the historic
Ranipokhari has started. CA-Tulasi Construction JV has started the temple
rebuilding following the signing of contract agreement with the National
Reconstruction Authority (NRA) about a month ago.
The contractor has started to break the concrete tie-beam around
the temple, constructed for the restoration of the temple after the devastating
Gorkha Earthquake 2015.
The temple was built by King Pratap Malla about 350 years ago.
Passage around the temple will be rebuilt with limestone and surki mortar. Surki is being produced at
the northern door of the historic pond.
Sanam Shrestha of the contractor company said that 30 to 35
workers are involved in the reconstruction of the temple daily. According to
him, the reconstruction of the temple would be started after the ‘Kshama
Pooja’.
He also said that the reconstruction of the temple and the
bridge over the pond connecting the temple would move ahead in a parallel
manner.
Shiva Hari Sharma, Joint-Secretary and Chief of Heritage
Preservation, Public Building and Infrastructure Division at the NRA, expressed
satisfaction over the progress at the site.
The CA-Tulasi will reconstruct the temple, bridge and garden
around the pond, and the consumer committee will rebuild the bed of the pond
and a wall around it.
The committee has completed the wall construction at the western
side and is building wall at southern and northern parts.
Expert artists are building the bed with black soil to make it
able to hold water.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 19 August 2019. 
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