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Govt moots high level authority to manage Kathmandu waste

File: Waste piles up at UN Park in Lalitpur.

Kathmandu, May 30

The Ministry of Water Supply is learnt to have been working on an idea of a high powered authority for the systematic management of waste produced from the Kathmandu Valley.

Secretary at the Ministry, Deependra Nath Sharma, during a meeting with members of Bagmati River and Ring Road Area Cleanup Campaign, shared the concept of establishing the high powered body to deal with the waste management issues, which were becoming more challenging day by day.

He applauded the initiations taken from the civic level to restore the beauty of rivers including Bagmati, adding that rising pollution had been a major threat to rivers, the sources of human civilisation.

Such a level of civic sense mattered a lot, he stated.

According to him, lack of cooperation between the local governments during the installation of drainage pipes in the Valley made cleanliness efforts more challenging.

On the occasion, high powered Bagmati Civilisation Integrated Development Committee project chief Ashish Ghimire apprised the secretary that they could not get budget from the Ministry of Finance required for management of central capital-based rivers despite three-month long efforts.

Campaign members Raju Adhikari, Mala Kharel, Pramila Poudel, Chitra Sunuwar, Shobhakant Pandey, Rohit Giri, Chakra Bahadur Chand, and Bebi Thapa, among other sought the government’s proper attention to keeping rivers clean.

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