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All parties meet to solve garbage issue

Kathmandu, July 16 (RSS): An all-party meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Development Ram Chandra Paudel to resolve the problem of waste management in Kathmandu valley decided to make available briefs of all study reports and efforts carried out by the ministry to all political parties for waste management, develop Okharpauwa as a dumping site for long-term solution of the problem and start without delay work on setting up a recycling factory.

The meeting also decided to look for options including Syuchatar and Ramkot for waste management and use the Bagmati river bank from Guheshwori to Gokarna as a land-filling site without polluting the environment whatsoever on which a road will be constructed later.

According to the Ministry of Local Development, those attending the meeting were NC’s ex- minister Chiranjivi Wagle, central members Rewatiraman Bhusal and Chandra Singh Bhattarai and MP Ram Chandra Tiwari, RPP’s Jog Mehar Shrestha, Kamal Thapa and Bikram Bahadur Thapa, and CPN-ML’s Radha Krishna Mainali, Rajendra Prasad Shrestha and Govind Krishna Adhikari.

Anil Kumar Jha of the Nepal Sadbhawana Party, Hari Acharya of the Rastriya Janamorcha Nepal, Govind Duwal of the NWPP and Sunil Prajapati, Ghanashyam Sharma Paudel of the Samyukta Janamorcha and Kathmandu acting Mayor Bidur Mainali also attended the meeting.

A joint meeting held here today on behalf of the residents of Kathmandu Valley suffering from garbage problem has demanded that HMG immediately resolve the sensitive issue of garbage disposal problem.

Despite repeated proposals for resolving the garbage problem permanently through the establishment of a private sector company and continuous follow up the government expressed no concern over the issue, it is stated in a press release.

The organiers of the joint meeting were the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Nepal Chamber of Commerce, Hotel Association of Nepal, Nepal Association of Travel Agents, Trekking Agents Association of Nepal, Board of Airlines Representatives in Nepal, Chefs Association of Nepal, Handicrafts Association of Nepal, Housekeepers Association of Nepal, Himalayan Rescue Association, Lazimpat Club, Nepal Incentive and Convention Association, Nepal Freight Forwarders Association, Nepal Association of Rafting Agents, Nepal Mountaineering Association, Nepal Association of Tour Operators, Olumpus Club, PABSON, PATA Nepal Chapter, Restaurant and Bar Association of Nepal, the Explorers Group, Tourist Guide Association of Nepal, Thamel Tourism Development Committee and Women Environment Conservation Committee.

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