Saturday, 30 January 2010
Kathmandu: Under constant vigilance of security personnel, private parties today began collecting trash from the Valley streets but were again threatened by the agitating local body employees’ union. Garbage collection was stalled by the agitating employees since January 21, issuing forth a charter of demands. But the government had refused to comply with their demands, citing that they were ‘unacceptable’.
As a last resort, the government today mobilised private collectors, providing them a security cordon. The five unions, belonging to different political parties, including the UCPN- Maoist, Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML, have halted all the works of the local bodies, including the collection and dumping of the waste.
“We disposed about 130 metric tonnes of waste collected from Thamel and Jamal area today at Aletar Landfill Site in Nuwakot,” said Dr. Sumitra Amatya, general manager at the Solid Waste Management and Resource Mobilisation Centre. “However, we have been informed that the private organisations were threatened by activists,” she added. The Ministry of Local Development in coordination with Ministry of Home Affairs decided yesterday to deploy Nepal Police and Armed Police Force to clean the streets. Dr. Amatya, meanwhile, said, “We are compelled to deploy the police to get rid of the garbage menace.”
(Source: The Himalayan Times; Annapurna Post, January 28, 2010)
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