Locals request PM Oli for preservation of historic Sundhara and Dharahara

Kathmandu, June 6: Locals have urged before Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to formulate a plan in order to allow the natural flow of water in Sundhara as well as for proper preservation of the remains of the old Dharahara .     

A delegation comprising Chairperson of Kathmandu Metropolis-22, Chinkaji Maharjan, and CPN (UML) Kathmandu District Committee Secretary Rajesh Shakya, among others, reached the official residence of the Prime Minister at Baluwatar today, and thanked the Prime Minister on the behalf of the locals for taking initiatives to construct a garden, numismatic and earthquake museum as well as the largest underground parking of the country in Sundhara and Dharahara area.     

The delegation briefed Prime Minister Oli that there is a lack of means and resources to remove the garbage thrown in underground drainage there, which has been obstructing the natural flow of water out of Dharahara area via the underground drainage.     

They complained that though the suggestions were given in the discussion with locals to give priority to make sewerage system systematic and preserving the remains of old Dharahara before reconstruction of the Dharahara damaged by the Gorkha earthquake, the concerned authority turned deaf ears to their suggestions.     

Assuring of facilitating from the federal government for the preservation of the heritage, Prime Minister Oli stressed the need of taking institutional efforts on the issue of preservation of heritages and cultures in Kathmandu Metropolis.(RSS)