Roads around Tonle Sap to be upgraded

22 January 2015
The Phnom Penh Post
Government / Infrastructure / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Rural Development / Roads and bridges / Transport and shipping / Transport infrastructure and facilities
Chea Sophara / Ministry of Rural Development / National Assembly / Tonle Sap

The Ministry of Rural Development plans to pave 1,200 kilometres of dirt roads across nine provinces surrounding the Tonle Sap this year, in a $120 million bid to improve the lives of rural farmers and reduce migration. … The roads are to connect rural areas to provincial towns, with the $120 million in funding coming largely from development partners aside from a $9 million government contribution. The roads are to be built using the double bituminous surface treatment – a longer-lasting kind of road usually reserved for highways and cities, Sophara said. …

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