Road Digging AndBurying Practice

Come the summer, and the pace of digging the blacktopped roads speeds up. It has been a common phenomenon. After a six-month long draught when it rained in Kathmandu on the New Year day last week, the people relating to sewerage department hurriedly started digging the roads. If one visits the Dhobhighat areas in Lalitpur, district, he can see how the people are busy to dig the recently blacktopped road to bury the drainpipes. What would be if the drains were buried before the road was blacktopped? Digging the road in such a way does not only create inconveniences to the local people but also it is the wastage of wealth and labour. I wonder why there is no coordination among the various departments working for the wellbeing of the city dwellers. And these departments send labours with shovels and spades turn by turn to ugly the already muddy and congested roads every year. I hope the concerned authorities will try to set coordination among the concerned departments so as to end the existing ‘road digging and burying practice’.

Pavitra Prasai
Jawalakhel,Kathmandu