KATHMANDU, March 21: Minister for Water Supply and Sanitation, Bina Magar, has said the Melamchi water would arrive in Kathmandu by the coming Dashain festival.

Speaking at an interaction program organized by the Reporters’ Club Nepal in Kathmandu on Wednesday, Minister Magar said that she had already visited the site where the works under the Melamchi Drinking Water Project have halted since the past few days.

The people concerned had been directed to work in such a way so that the Kathmandu denizens could use the Melamchi water by coming October.

According to the information shared by her on the occasion, water from the Sindhupalchwok-based Melamchi River will be collected at Sundarijal Water Treatment Plant by the next 25 days.

“The government would announce the Nepal year 2075 BS as the National Sanitation Year. The Bagmati and Bishnumati rivers would be cleaned and developed into a tourist destination,” she furthered.

KATHMANDU, July 26: Minister for Water Supply and Sanitation, Mahendra Yadav, has said his main goal was to ensure clean drinking water to the people from across the country.

Assuming his office at the Ministry on Wednesday, Minister Yadav, reminded that clean drinking water is the fundamental rights of citizen. “One can live without houses and roads, but can’t live without clean drinking water,” he said, adding that drinking water must be ensured to citizen at any cost.

Also the former chairman of Tarun Dal, Minister Yadav, further said he had spent the budget allocated from the parliamentarians’ development fund to the drinking water and sanitation.

Ministry Secretary Bhim Prasad Upadhyay welcomed the Minister and viewed that the Ministry employees were working seriously to bring Melamchi water in the Kathmandu Valley. RSS