KATHMANDU, Dec 7: Every day Dambar Bahadur Naral, a security guard at the Nepal Medical Association, has to clean away the refuse pile dumped in front of his office to open the main gate.
It has been his daily routine in the last 13 years. Naral is fed up with the negligence of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) office, a major body to maintain wastage in Kathmandu city.
“I joined this office some 13 years ago and I have been cleaning the refuses from the first day of my job,” said Naral. “The problem of refuse is always same here. If the KMC office does not maintain the wastage of the capital city, then what is the office for?”
Naral, 52, said that along with the KMC office, nearby hotels and other shops are also responsible for the piles of refuse in front of his office. “They use this place as a dumping site and sometime the rickshaw which is operated by the KMC office, to collect the refuse, also dumps the collected refuse here only,” he added.
“Once we had submitted a letter to the KMC office, requesting them to clean the road and collect all the refuse,” said Naral. “As per our request letter, they sent garbage truck and collected all the refuse. By then, they did not come again which means we have to send letters regularly in order to clean the refuse.”
Like Naral, Januka Adhikari, 30, is also facing the problem of wastages. Adhikari, who has been operating her cosmetic shop on a pulling cart at Kalanki, is compelled to run her shop near the pile of refuse as that place is the closest to her room.
“I have been operating here for the last one year and I have not seen any garbage van collecting the refuses from here,” said Adhikari. “But I have seen people throwing wastage. The concerned authority should collect the refuse regularly so that people would not have to face so many problems. Not only me but all the people who cross this road have been facing the same problem."
According to her, the refuse could be harmful for children´s health as well. So, the concerned authority must collect the refuse timely.
Tons of wastes have piled up on many street of the capital city. Despite the fact that the KMC office has been organizing special cleanliness campaigns, the problem of waste is still the same.
The KMC office is organizing a seven-day cleanliness campaign from today to mark 18th anniversary of its establishment. Some of the officials gathered today and organized various plans along with cleaning the capital city. Similarly, they have also informed all the wards of Kathmandu to carry out cleanliness campaign in their respective wards. The KMC office will celebrate its anniversary on December 14.
“We have organized a cleaning campaign on the anniversary of our office,” said Rabin Man Shrestha, chief of Environment Management Division at KMC office. “Our campaign will help to increase awareness among the people.”
The KMC office has organized a number of such campaigns in the past but none of them have had any noticeable effect on the cleanliness of the capital city.
source: myrepublica.com
It has been his daily routine in the last 13 years. Naral is fed up with the negligence of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) office, a major body to maintain wastage in Kathmandu city.
“I joined this office some 13 years ago and I have been cleaning the refuses from the first day of my job,” said Naral. “The problem of refuse is always same here. If the KMC office does not maintain the wastage of the capital city, then what is the office for?”
Naral, 52, said that along with the KMC office, nearby hotels and other shops are also responsible for the piles of refuse in front of his office. “They use this place as a dumping site and sometime the rickshaw which is operated by the KMC office, to collect the refuse, also dumps the collected refuse here only,” he added.
“Once we had submitted a letter to the KMC office, requesting them to clean the road and collect all the refuse,” said Naral. “As per our request letter, they sent garbage truck and collected all the refuse. By then, they did not come again which means we have to send letters regularly in order to clean the refuse.”
Like Naral, Januka Adhikari, 30, is also facing the problem of wastages. Adhikari, who has been operating her cosmetic shop on a pulling cart at Kalanki, is compelled to run her shop near the pile of refuse as that place is the closest to her room.
“I have been operating here for the last one year and I have not seen any garbage van collecting the refuses from here,” said Adhikari. “But I have seen people throwing wastage. The concerned authority should collect the refuse regularly so that people would not have to face so many problems. Not only me but all the people who cross this road have been facing the same problem."
According to her, the refuse could be harmful for children´s health as well. So, the concerned authority must collect the refuse timely.
Tons of wastes have piled up on many street of the capital city. Despite the fact that the KMC office has been organizing special cleanliness campaigns, the problem of waste is still the same.
The KMC office is organizing a seven-day cleanliness campaign from today to mark 18th anniversary of its establishment. Some of the officials gathered today and organized various plans along with cleaning the capital city. Similarly, they have also informed all the wards of Kathmandu to carry out cleanliness campaign in their respective wards. The KMC office will celebrate its anniversary on December 14.
“We have organized a cleaning campaign on the anniversary of our office,” said Rabin Man Shrestha, chief of Environment Management Division at KMC office. “Our campaign will help to increase awareness among the people.”
The KMC office has organized a number of such campaigns in the past but none of them have had any noticeable effect on the cleanliness of the capital city.
source: myrepublica.com
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