December 18, Kathmandu 

If the work is done as per the plan, it will be possible to go from Pokhara to Muktinath of Mustang by cable car after four and a half years. The detailed project report of the Muktinath Cable Car Project as the world's longest cable car has been handed over to the government at the initiative of Nepal's private sector and foreign investors with the facilitation of the Investment Board.

A team comprising technicians and officials from the Board of Investment and stakeholders is currently studying the detailed project report 9DPR, which includes full details of how and where to build the cable car by Muktinath Darshan Pvt.

According to the DPR, an 80.15 km long cable car will be constructed from Birethanti of Kaski to Muktinath temple. The cable car, which travels at a speed of seven meters per second, will take three hours and 36 minutes to reach Muktinath. Starting from an altitude of about one thousand meters above sea level, the cable car will reach an altitude of three thousand seven hundred meters. It will have 17 sections and 19 stations.

According to Shridhar Sapkota, managing director of the company, passengers will be able to complete the journey in segmented form. This news has been written by Gopal Chandra Subedi in today's Gorkhapatra daily.