One of the most pressing medical issues are the extremely bad gravel roads — some with large potholes and washouts that make them almost impassable in the wet.
Bad roads mean greater strain on a vehicle and potential mechanical failure. More importantly, they can also become a life and death issue for someone with a medical emergency, especially if that person needs to travel by a motorbike or 3-wheeled scooter.
Rinpoche has undertaken construct 28 kms of new roads around Bylakuppe and a further 15km around his retreat centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.
After a number of medical incidents in Bylakuppe, one where a pregnant woman miscarried, Representatives of the Exile Central Tibetan Administration in Bangalore and Bylakuppe persuaded the Indian State government to surface all major roads entering the Bylakuppe region.
Ayang Rinpoche raised funds to pay for a significant proportion of the cost but also wanted most of the other roads inside the settlement to be repaired as well. The Indian Government deemed this second part a local issue and was not prepared to help financially. Rinpoche then decided to undertake the repair of the internal roads himself.
This project also requires the complete reconstruction of several road bridges as well as ongoing maintenance.
Rinpoche’s road building project will see most of the Bylakuppe region, its settlements, centres and its monasteries linked by a wider, safer and more robust road system. The cost of new road building is approximately 10 laks per kilometre or US$20,000.
Funds are required not only to complete this project, but to aid in the continuing maintenance of the road system.
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