Wheel Barrows, weeds and local labour build "gentler" and cheaper roads.
Construction foreman Pashupati Dawadi had helped build many roads in his lifetime. But sowing millet on a newly dug surface? He had never seen that before,
Yet the instruction from engineer Hare Ram Shrestha had been to sow millet on the freshly completed six-kilometre stretch of the Dhading Besi – Salmetar road. Partly in jest, the foreman had asked: "Sir, did you study the same engineering as others?"
In response, Shrestha had merely said that he was "trying to demonstrate a 'way' to grow weeds." His intention was to give the road a "green top."