Rural Road Case Study

The rural road is defined as connecting public roads from village to the main road, where it will lead them market and access to other economic and social development facilities, which are not national and urban roads. Likewise, rural roads are communication routes with very low volume of traffic, generally 500 vehicles per day, whose major function is to provide access to farms and farmland (Gallegoa, Moyab, Garcıa, & Ayugac, 2008). Low volume rural roads are developed and maintained by local agencies such as District Development Committee and Village Development Committee in Nepal (Bhandari, Shahi, & Shrestha, Multi-criteria Evaluation for Ranking Rural Road Projects: Case study of Nepal, 2014), state government in India (Sarkar, 2011), Local
Nepal is a mountainous country with area 147181 sq.km, population 26,494,504 (2011 census) & per capita nominal GDP $837 per year. About 81 % of total population lives in rural areas in this country. There are 53310 km rural roads in total in Nepal among them 38940 km earthen, 12513 km graveled and 1857 km blacktopped. Still, 368 VDCs (Village Development Committees: local institutions) among 3157 VDCs of Nepal aren't connected by roads. Among these roads, about 27% are all -weathered, additional 18% are fair weathered and remaining 55% impassable to vehicles due to the bad condition of the roads (DoLIDAR, DoLIDAR Bulletin Issue no 15, Volume No 13, August, 2016). Nepal is a disaster prone country. Therefore, a balanced approach to economic, social and environmental aspects is very important for the development of rural roads in this