The airport was built with Chinese assistance through a soft loan of USD 215.96 million agreement signed in March 2016 as part of the Nepal-China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation.
The Pokhara Regional International Airport, where a passenger plane crashed today, was inaugurated on January 1, 2023, by Nepal Prime Minister Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'. The airport was built with Chinese assistance.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on Sunday inaugurated the Himalayan nation’s third international airport in western Nepal’s tourist hub of Pokhara built with Chinese assistance.
Nepal government had signed a USD 215.96 million soft loan agreement with China in March 2016 for the construction of the new airport in the lake city.