Kathmandu, September 7
If you are wondering how many houses are there in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City and are planning to ask the local government authority, you are likely to get disappointed.
Whereas the capital city’s Mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya is under fire on social media for his alleged lack of knowledge about the number of houses, the City Office also says it does not have any data.
Officials say it has just started counting the number of houses.
Chief of the Construction Permission Department of the local government, Rabindra Paudel, says around 150,000 houses have been documented into an online system so far.
He, however, surmises that there are around 300,000 houses in the city, adding the local government will complete collecting data about all houses in the digital system within this fiscal year.
More than 1,000 houses are being added to the city every year over past few decades.
