དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་གཞུང་།།ཞབས་ཏོག་ལྷན་ཁག།ལམ་སེལ་ལས་ཁུངས།བཟོ་བཀེད་སེ་ཚན།

Royal Government of Bhutan

Ministry of Works & Human Settlement
Department of Roads
Design Division
“Construction Industry: Solutions through innovation & improved technology”

DOR/DD/17-18/File/no. Tuesday, November13, 2018

The Chief Engineer

Design Division
Department of Roads
Thimphu

Sub: Field Report for Haa-Samtse SNH.

Sir,

As per the office order DoR/DD/2018-2019/03/526 dated 25th December, 2018,the

following officials from Department of Roads, Head Quarter were deployed for
preparing the DPR for the construction of Haa-Samtse highway.

1. Mr. Sonam Tshering, Engineer, Design Division, DoR

2. Ms. Tenzin Choden,AE, Construction Divison, DoR

1. RO Thimphu
Before deploying for the field work, the team wanted to consult with the Chief
Engineers of the two RO’s, to discuss with further proceeding for carrying out the DPR.
The Chief Engineer of RO Thimphu was contacted first and met in person for the status
report. Upon meeting him personally, it was known that roughly 15km road stretch
needs detail surveying to be done as it is still under feeder road standard. Technically it
proved to be of mere possibility for the detail surveying to be completed at the earliest as
the DRP needs to be submitted latest by 7th of February, 2019. For the detail surveying
to be completed for the 15km stretch, it would take almost 50 days (minimum) to
complete. This would mean that for compiling and finalizing the DPR, it would take
more than the given due date.

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 2. RO Phuntsholing

The team then proceeded with the walk through survey along the Samtse-Haa highway.
Based on the walk through survey, road stretches were described individually for
information.

Road Stretch under RO Phuntsholing

length
S.No Name of Road Road Condition
(Kms)
1 Samtse to Halhaly 25 PNH
2 Halhaly to Dorokha 26 GC
3 Dorokha ro Namchukhola 15 GC
4 Namchukhola to Sombeykha 20 SNH

2.1 Samtse to Halhaly (25km)

The Samtse to Halhaly road which is of 25 km in length is of full PNH standard and
hence in need no extra work to be done as of now as it is still in good condition.
Permanent structure need not be proposed here as well. In conclusion, the team found no
necessary work to be implemented along this stretch.

Samtse-Halhaly PNH-25km

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 2.2 Halhaly to Dorokha (26km)

The existing road is of GC standard and has a width of 3.5m at present. The road needs
to be of SNH standard so widening is essential here. Widening can be done along the
existing alignment/GC road, may need slight gradient correction. Detail surveying is
needed for road design and estimation.

2.3 Dorokha to Namchukhola (15km)

This stretch has the same condition as the above and needs detail surveying to be carried
out here.

2.4 Namchukhola to Sangbaykha(20km)

This existing road is already in SNH standard and as per the Site Engineer detail cost
estimate has been prepared (attached in previous IPD)

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 Findings

40km existing GC road( Halhaly to Namchukhola) needs detail surveying to be carried

out which would take roughly 140 days for a single survey team as all the survey team
of Design Division are engaged with the DPR preparation for the Improvement of
Tshelingore – Khodakpa road led by Mr. Phuntsho Rinzin of Design Division.

Submitted for kind information and further instructions from the Headquarter.

Yours sincerely,

Sonam Tshering
Engineer
Design Division, DoR

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