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Garbage collection halted again
KATHMANDU, JUN 12 -
Garbage collection in Kathmandu Valley halted on Saturday after locals of Ratmate near Aletar dumping site in Nuwakot district prevented garbage disposal, demanding implementation of past agreements reached with them.
The locals had barred Kathmandu Metropolitan City vehicles carrying garbage from disposing waste in the dumping site.
However, 15 trucks of garbage collected from the Capital was ferried to Tikathali in Lalitpur. Some 300 tonnes of garbage is yet to be collected from the Capital’s streets.
“The initiative was taken to dispose garbage from the core areas of the Capital,” said Rabin Man Shrestha, Chief of Environment Management Department at KMC.
Shrestha added that they got a letter from the locals on Friday reading, “Don’t send any garbage vehicles until our demands are met.”
The agitating locals have said they will not allow garbage disposal until the government implements past agreements, including construction of schools and providing irrigation and drinking water facilities in the area.
This is the 60th time garbage disposal has halted in the area since June 5, 2005.
Solid Waste Management and Resource Mobilisation Centre (SWMRMC), a government body formed to manage garbage, had formed a sub-committee last month to address the recurring problems in garbage disposal. “Locals put forward unnecessary and individual demands and halt garbage disposal,” said Dipendra Oli, member-secretary of the sub-committee.
Oli claimed that most of their demands were fulfilled and others were under consideration.
“Unless people obey law and bring change in their attitude, such problems will recur,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that a meeting between the protesting locals and the sub-committee is scheduled for Sunday to resolve the problem.
Posted on: 2010-06-13 08:53
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