KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is currently under pressure to manage the city waste.
It is facing problems as the construction of the long-term dumping site at Bancharedanda has not been constructed yet.
Meanwhile, the Sisdol landfill site has become full to its capacity. KMC has been currently dumping waste at the Sisdol landfill site.
The waste from 18 local levels in the Kathmandu Valley has been dumped at the Sisdol landfill site in Nuwakot for the last 13 years.
Around 1,000 metric tons of waste is generated every day in the valley. The KMC alone generates 500 metric tons daily.
Even though the construction works of the landfill site at Bancharedanda are being carried out with the goal of completing it within April this year, only 30 percent of works have been completed so far.
An agreement had been signed on May 5, 2019, with Lumbini Koshi and Neupane JV for the construction of the sanitary landfill site at Bancharedanda within a year from the signing of the contract worth Rs 346 million 874 thousand 895, exclusive of VAT.
The government had last month decided to give the responsibility of constructing the Bancharedanda landfill site to the Ministry of Urban Development.
Expressing concern over the delay in the construction, KMC mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya said KMC would find out a solution in case there were policy-level hurdles in the construction of the landfill site.
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