Shivasatakshi Municipality starts segregating waste

BY LILA RAJ KHADKA,Birtamod, Mar. 13: Shivasatakshi Municipality in Jhapa district has started segregating waste for the first time after the establishment of Waste Processing Centre in Jharbari of Birtamod. Mayor Mega Hang Thopra informed that the centre had been successfully tested and brought into operation. 

The municipality had laid the foundation stone of the centre on April 1, 2022. With the success of the test, the municipality is preparing to inaugurate it in a few days. Mayor Thopra said that the municipality had purchased 2 bighas and 18 katthas of land for the centre and installed the waste processing machine over there. 

According to Mayor Thopra, waste separation chamber section, car parking, and office building were yet to be constructed. He said that Rs. 30 million had been spent so far for the construction of the centre including Rs. one million on the processing machine. They had a plan to add flower beds and garden in the site to beautify the centre, he added. 

According to the data presented in the DPR of the centre, it would cost Rs. 12 million to complete the site. A single waste processing machine has a capacity to destroy 300 kilograms of waste – except metals – in an hour. 

The municipality informed that a fee for the disposal of the waste would be determined based on cost of management of the centre, staff employed and transportation used.  Mayor Thopra requested the residents to pay the fee to the municipality as a minimum fee has been fixed for the disposal of the waste collected in the municipality.