Come rainy season and Kathmandu is starting to stink again with the
perennial problem of uncollected garbage back again, causing serious
eye-sore and possible health hazards in the city's streets and main
thoroughfares from Friday.
Heaps of uncollected garbage has piled up in the streets after locals living
near Okharpauwa landfill site again started prohibiting garbage trucks from
dumping the city's waste citing the same reasons as in the past.
They say that they would not allow Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) from
transferring the garbage to the landfill site until their demands for more
development works in the area are not met.
Jit Bahadur Balami, member of the Landfill Site Concern Committee, told
Kantipur Daily that they are not allowing garbage trunks to transport city's
garbage to the site since the funds being provided to them by the government
for development works in the area is not enough and that the assurances
given to them till now has also not been fulfilled.
However, KMC's Executive Director Dinesh Thapaliya informed that they would
start collecting the garbage from Sunday onwards. He also requested the
locals of Sisdole area not to obstruct the garbage trucks from transporting
city's waste to the site. nepalnews.com ag June 15 08
