π Tender Overview
ADB has supported the government in upgrading around 310 kilometers of roads under the Subregional Transport Enhancement Project. The project has upgraded and modernized customs clearance systems for transparent and simplified procedures. For a landlocked country like Nepal the development of roads is crucial for economic activities and development connecting people to public services farmers to the market and children to school.ADB has supported the government in upgrading about 310 kilometers km of roads under the Subregional Transport Enhancement Project STEP. The project has expanded road capacity of major trade routes and provided rural communities in the northeast with a northsouth link to the eastwest highway one of Nepals main trade corridor routes. The project has upgraded and modernized customs clearance systems for transparent and simplified customs clearance procedures. Investments in improving road and related infrastructure have been an important part of ADBs strategy in Nepal to reduce poverty and support economic growth.