Kathmandu: The Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) has shown interest in managing sewerage on the Bagmati River along the temple premises. About five decades ago, devotees used to drink water and take dips in the holy river. “However, people can’t think of doing such things any more,”said PADT member secretary Sushil Nahata adding that drinking and taking a dip in the river is unimaginable now. The river has become a filthy sewerage drain as sewerage pipes are directly linked to the river without treatment, he said. 

Dailekh: Call it a segregation or discrimination, but the hard truth is in Dailekh’s Bastakot village one cannot miss the spectacle of four separate water taps for four different castes. And this is nothing new here or that matter in other parts of the country. It has been the way of life here for ages, and if some locals are to be believed it has come down the ancient times. Four separate water taps for Dalits and non-Dalits in western Dailekh’s Jambukandh-8, Bastakot village was the life that nobody appears to have any problem anymore. 

By: SUJATA AWALE

Kathmandu: Though the government is running ‘trash is cash’ programme to create awareness about recycling and reusing waste at the household level, the implementation leaves much to be desired. According to Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), the valley generates 600 tonnes of solid waste daily, out of which KMC alone produces 475 tonnes.

Kathmandu: Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has started a week-long Bishnumati River banks cleaning programme from today. Although all of KMC’s attempts and campaigns to clean the city has failed in the past, the civic body has again planned to remove dumped waste from the river banks. “We started cleaning the banks of the Bishnumati River from today as part of our attempts to clean the city,” said Kedar Bahadur Adhikari, executive chief at KMC. “Twenty hired persons stepped into the river and removed the dumped garbage from the river bed,” he said.