Kathmandu: Kathmanduites heaved a sigh of much sought after relief on Wednesday as the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) resumed garbage disposal after four days of obstruction. The three-day banda called by the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (Nefin) had grounded KMC’s garbage carrying vehicles at several places, leading to heaps of garbage on roads and streets.

Even after the end of the Nefin strike, situation remained no different as residents of Tinpiple prevented KMC vehicles from dumping waste in the Sisdole landfill site. The locals of Jitpur VDC bordering Nuwakot and Kathmandu brought garbage disposal to a standstill in a symbolic protest against identity-based federalism. KMC’s Environment Division chief Rabin Man Shrestha said there was no more obstruction now and the metropolis authorities have started dumping waste in Sisdole as usual. Some 475 tonnes of waste is generated in the Kathmandu Valley everyday, out of which KMC collects around 200 tonnes. Last year, the government had introduced the Solid Waste management Act-2011 to penalise the groups or individuals obstructing waste disposal as the valley saw heaps of garbage more than 70 times due to several obstructions in the landfill sites.