ADB to support $118m rural road project in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide nine poor rural provinces in Cambodia with year-round access to markets and social services through a 118 million U.S. dollars project to provide a safer, cost-effective rural road network, the bank said in a press statement on Monday.
"Cambodia's rural economy is increasingly dependent on the road network for income opportunities and access to services," said Shihiru Date, an ADB senior transport specialist. "This project to upgrade 729 km of rural roads will provide safe, climate-resilient and cost effective roads in provinces that are home to a large portion of Cambodia's poor."
The rural road network has deteriorated due to lack of finance, poor maintenance, and increasing traffic, the statement said, adding that the project will upgrade these mostly gravel roads to paved condition in nine provinces -- Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, Kampong Cham, Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Speu, Kampong Thom, Pursat, Siem Reap and Takeo.

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