Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has forwarded works for the construction of a landfill site for the long term management of solid waste generated in the metropolis.
Chief of KMC Environment Department Hari Shrestha said works on developing a landfill site for use for the long term have already begun at Bancharedanda of Nuwakot, adding that the KMC would therefore not construct the landfill site for the short term.
According to him, KMC is opening the long-term landfill site construction center very soon as part of its works that have been expedited for the long-term management of the Kathmandu Valley’s waste.
The meeting of the Council of Ministers on December 3 took a decision of giving the responsibility of the construction of about 15 meters tall dam and the landfill site with other required infrastructures to the Ministry of Urban Development. This landfill site for use for the long term will be constructed at Bancharedanda of Nuwakot.
Shrestha,however, said that KMC would continue to use the present dumping site at Sisdol, Nuwakot for the time being. It has been using the dumping site at Sisdole since the last 13 years. He said works on construction of the road leading to Bancharedanda from Sisdol is being carried out at present. The road will be completed in the next two months and the construction works on the landfill site would be started after that.
One thousand metric tonnes of waste is produced in Kathmandu Valley in a day while Kathmandu alone generates 500 metric tonnes waste daily. Seventy five per cent of the entire waste generated in the Valley is being dumped at the landfill site in Sisdol.
