By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Mar. 31: The streets of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) are now littered with piles of garbage dumped by people.
Locals at the Sisdol Landfill Site in Nuwakot district have obstructed garbage disposal for the last five days, putting forth various demands.
Issuing a press release, KMC on Monday requested to the residents of Sisdol to help manage the garbage piled up in the main junctions of the Kathmandu Valley.
Hari Kumar Shrestha, chief of the Environmental Management Department of KMC, has requested people to cooperate in waste management by separating disposable and nun-disposable wastes.
Garbage collection has been affected since March 26 this time but this has been happening time and again, he added.
According to Shrestha, the Teachers Management Struggle Committee of the Sisdol area has obstructed the disposal of garbage by demanding that they be provided teachers’ posts in the schools of the affected areas and the children be provided free education up to the secondary level.
Shrestha said the locals had demanded 51 seats of teachers in one lot, but KMC has said their demands would be fulfilled gradually.
He said that discussions have been made in coordination with the Maoist Centre, Government of Nepal, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
Shrestha said that there would be a meeting with the locals of the Sisdol area and KMC on Wednesday and the meeting would find some solution.
The department, issuing a press statement on Monday, had requested that households, shops, industries, factories, businesses and offices sort the garbage at the source as it was not possible to take the garbage to the site at present.
KMC had requested the denizens to manage the non-degradable waste at home and send the degradable garbage for collection.
The garbage from 18 local levels of the Kathmandu Valley is being dumped at the landfill site at Sisdol in Nuwakot for the past 13 years. In the past two years, the locals have been obstructing the landfill site showing various problems, Shrestha said.
At least 1,200 metric tonnes of garbage is being dumped at the Sisdol landfill site daily from the Kathmandu Valley. Every day, 200 vehicles, both private and public, transport garbage to Sisdol from the Valley.