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One More Week for Garbage Collection in Kathmandu Valley

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One More Week for Garbage Collection in Kathmandu Valley
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August 26: The Kathmandu Valley denizens will have to endure garbage piled at different places of the valley for one more week as it would take some time to prepare a new landfill site in Bancharedanda.  

Government authorities say that they are creating a new cell at Bancharedanda to dump the waste.

Information Officer at Ministry of Urban Development, Suresh Kumar Wagle, said that construction of the first cell of landfill site is in the final stage. However, problems still exists because the old landfill site at Sisdol must be crossed to reach the new site. Huge mass of garbage at Sisdol must be passed to reach the new site. Currently, garbage containers cannot pass via the mound, Wagle added.    
Wagle informed that they need to set up a makeshift bridge by coordinating with the Department of Roads and Kathmandu Metropolis to resolve the problem.

He also urged the residents of Kathmandu not to keep garbage outside their houses for the next 11 days.    
Environment department chief at KMC, Hari Kumar Shrestha, shared that it is a recurring problem since some years because of failure to manage a long-term solution for a landfill site. He blames the Ministry of Urban Development behind such delay. According to him, there is no place left to manage waste at Sisdol so it should be managed at Banchare-danda.    
Management of waste is so poor that Sisdol of Nuwakot was selected as a landfill site in 2005 AD just for two years. But, it has outlived its capacity for these many years while the government has been ignoring its responsibility to seek a long-term solution.    
Currently, 1200 metric tons of garbage is managed at Sisdole from Kathmandu Valley. The Kathmandu Valley alone generates 500 metric tons of garbage a day.    
Bancharedanda, where a landfill for long term solution is being constructed, is two-km away from the current landfill site, Sisdol. Bancharedanda lies at the border of Nuwakot and Dhading. -- RSS   
 
  

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