By: Bhimsen Thapaliya

The government recently gave the security men a completely different role. The armed police personnel were busy in the metropolis, not carrying arms and patrolling but holding shovels and hauling the heaps of garbage into the tripper trucks waiting by the side. They defied the stink, swarms of flies and did their job, drawing appreciation from the public.

The local bodies’ unions have finally called off their strike. While the employees of the local bodies were on strike the common people had to suffer. As a consequence, garbage was strewn on the streets uncollected. They posed a serious health hazard apart from emitting odious stench.

Kathmandu: The Environment Management Department of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) said that it would take another three days to clear all garbage heaped in the capital valley over the last 12 days. The Department started garbage disposal from February 1 after the unions of local bodies decided to return to work. Employees had been in strike since January 21.

By: Arjun Subedi

It has been revealed that more than half of the water supplied by the Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL) in the Valley is untreated. The KUKL, which has been supplying 150 million litres drinking water a day in the Kathmandu Valley, stated that drinking water gets treated completely from the four water treatment centres having the capacity to treat 20 million litres per day.