Bagmati River Mega Cleaning Campaign, 94 areas cleaned this week
Purna Prasad Mishra
KATHMANDU, June 2: Over 20 thousand metric tons of garbage was collected and managed from various places of the country on Saturday under the Bagmati River Cleanup Mega Campaign that kicked off on May 19, 2013 and other cleanliness campaigns launched at the local level thereafter.
Over 500,000 people participated in cleaning of various rivers and (local) areas.
At the request of the Mega Campaign, the government has announced the year 2075 BS as the ‘National Cleanliness Year’. The government had issued the cleanliness declaration on the occasion of the 200th week of the commencement of the Bagmati River Mega Campaign.
A total of 39 metric tons of waste materials were collected from the Kathmandu-valley based rivers and ring road area and managed today. In the 264th week of the Mega Campaign today, the Thapathali area was cleaned with the management of five metric tons of waste.
Over 375 people from various organizations including High Powered Bagmati Civilization Integrated Development Committee, Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, Nyano Sparsha, Muktinath Development Bank and Reiyukai Nepal participated in the cleaning works, according to one of the participants, Mala Kharel.
Nepal’s Ambassador for China and former Chief Secretary Leelamani Poudyal had also joined the event.
Under the 225th week of the Cleanliness Campaign above the Guheshwori Area, Syalmati of Tarebhir Area of Gokarneshwor Municipality-3 was cleaned today with the participations of Committee chair Narendra Raj Basnet and project chief Aashis Ghimire and Gokarneshwor Municipality-3 ward chair Rajendra Bhandari.
Rudramti River Area, Siddheshwor area in Tokha Municipality, Manohara River, an area from Sinamangal to Tinkune, Aloknagar area in Kathmandu Metropolis-31 and an area from Syuchatar to Bafalchowk witnessed the cleaning works today.
The then Chief Secretary and present Nepal’s Ambassador to China, Poudyal, has been credited as one of the initiators of the Bagmati River Mega Cleaning Campaign and having influenced by this, people at local levels have engaged in the cleaning of their locality.