Manakamana Cable Car service goes digital

MUGLIN: The Manakamana Cable Car resumed after an upgrade today.

With the upgrade, the cable transportation run by the Manakamana Darshan Pvt Ltd has gone digital.

The cable car had halted its service since July 15 to change the rope. The ropeway service in operation for 26 years through the analogue system has been upgraded to digital technology, according to Deputy General Manager of Manakamana Darshan Pvt Ltd, Ujjwal Sherchan.

The ropeway’s transformation from analogue to digital operation was accomplished with the technological supervision of engineers from Austria.

The cable car was initiated on November 24, 1998 to facilitate the religious visitors’ access to the famous Manakamana Temple located at Shahid Lakhan Rural Municipality of Gorkha district.

The bottom station of the ropeway is at Cheres of Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality of Chitwan.