Road Board Maintenance Program (RBN)
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Within the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development and Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agricultural Roads (DoLIDAR), RBN maintenance program has been implementing in 65 districts and 58 municipalities of the country.
About Road Board Nepal
Roads Board Nepal (RBN) was established under the Roads Board Act 2058 (g2002) with the aim of providing sustainable fund for planned maintenance of the roads. The aim of planned maintenance is to keep existing maintainable roads in serviceable condition, reduce vehicle operating cost and provide more comfort to the road users. RBN is a self gorverning, self sustaining and organized entity based on Public-Private Partnership [PPP] model. The major function of RBN is to collect, manage and allocate fund for road maintenance to the Road Agencies (RA). RBN is fully devoted in providing beter road service to the road users as they pay in the form of direct road toll, fuel levy and vehicle gegistration fee.
RBN works together with road agencies [RA], which actually implement the road maintenance works. The department of roads [DOR] is identified as the RA for the maintenance of strategic road network [SRN]. Maintenance of urban, district, and local roads is governed through the department of local infrastructure development and agricultural roads [DoLIDAR], which coordinates the district development committees [DDC] and municipalities [MC] recognized as the road agencies for local road network [LRN]. On the other side, the RBN has to report to and communicate with the GoN through the ministry of physical planning and works [MPPW]. Twenty first century public sector service such as roads can not be managed in isolation. The participation of users shall be defined. Other stakeholders are equally important and their voices shall be heard. Transparency in the process of road maintenance management is of paramount importance. This can be enhanced through the efficient work of RBN as it constitutes representations from government, private and civil sectors.
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