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| Kathmandu Wednesday April 03, 2002 Chaitra 21, 2058. |
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Anamnagar-Ghattekulo area to
be improved
Post Report
KATHMANDU, April 2:The uncontrolled and
unmanaged mushrooming of concrete houses of Anamnagar-Ghattekulo area that has scarcely
left open space or roads, is coming under control as the locals are taking steps to
upgrade the land with the technical help from the Kathmandu Metropolitan City.
"We are planning to improve the 20 hectares
of land in the newly developing residential area of ward No. 32 to control the haphazard
development and make use of some open space," said infrastructure engineer Anup Johsi
of Kathmandu Valley Mapping Pragramme, a project of KMC.
In the past ten years or so, over a hundred
houses have been built on the eastern side of Dhobikhola but the new residents hardly
think about open space, emergency outlets, way for fire-brigade and ambulances while
constructing their houses. The result is that the roads are uneven, meandering and no
space for children to play or parking vehicles.
The experts said that the whole area would be
dangerous to reside in if minimum of infrastructure is not developed there in time.
"As the area is growing independently,
without any governing body to control it, we concluded that the residents of the area
would face lots of practical problems if the number of houses keep growing in the same way
and the owners of new houses do not realise the need of land improvement plans in
time."
The project will broaden all the roads that are
important for local transportation. It will open all the bottlenecks as far as possible by
acquiring the private land and paying off due compensation. It will also improve the
drainage system and construct new drains. For those activities, a steering committee has
been formed that includes the participation of local people in development works.
A meeting of the committee is being held on
Tuesday, the KMC officials said.
"The whole project will be conducted with
the financial contribution from the locals and the KMC which will provide certain amount
of money to launch the preliminary development works," Joshi said.
He said after the completion of the project, the
land value of the area would increase and the residents there also would get better
facility. However, the total amount to complete the project has not been estimated.
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