KATHMANDU, JULY 16

Chandragiri Municipality has pledged to further support and collaborate with Kathmandu Metropolitan City on the issue of solid waste management.

In this connection, the chiefs of two larger municipalities of the Kathmandu Valley held mutual dialogue for the first time. It may be noted that KMC has announced its initiative to collect biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste under its solid waste management bid from July 17.KMC sources shared that it would collect biodegradable waste on Sunday and Wednesday and non-biodegradable waste on Monday and Friday under its campaign for 'Segregating waste at source'. In a bid to take the public into confidence for the campaign, KMC has continued its doorstep visit programme.

At a meeting held between Chandragiri Mayor Ghanashyam Giri and KMC Mayor Balendra Shah at Chandragiri Municipality today, matters related to collaboration in various other areas, including waste management, were discussed.

'As waste management is a shared problem, Chandragiri Municipality is ever committed to supporting and collaborating with KMC in its policy and initiative for the same. We have adopted a policy of managing the waste generated within the municipal territory,' Mayor Giri said.

Informing that the municipality has been incentivising the private sector to transform perishable waste into compost fertiliser, he stressed the need of integrated policy and collaboration among municipalities in Kathmandu valley to deal with the waste management issue.

A version of this article appears in the print on July 17, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.