KATHMANDU: Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has ordered to stop the campaign of feeding free food on the streets.
Campaigner Dipesh Dhunju said that the Kathmandu Municipal Police had called him to stop feeding lunch from tomorrow.
He said that Dhanpati Sapkota, Chief of the Municipal Police Division, had called him and told him not to feed food on the road as the order had come from a higher authority.
Campaigner Bimal Pant had called a municipal employee after hearing the news that he had been ordered not to provide food.
The employees also ordered Bimal’s team not to feed food on the streets from tomorrow (Tuesday) saying that it was an insult to the government to feed them on the streets.
The Hundred Group has been feeding the affected people continuously.
The organization has been providing food since the government issued a lockdown on March 31.
People have been gathering at the Khulamanch bus terminal area of Kathmandu from 3 pm to eat. Around 600- 1,000 people come there for food every day.
Although the volunteers used to deliver food to the workers on motorcycles at Pashupati, Guheshwari, Swoyambhu, and other areas, now it is being fed only at Khulamanch.
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