KATHMANDU: The Bagmati Clean-up Campaign into its 164th week on Saturday concentrated on Tripureshwor area and scooped up 17 metric tons of garbage.

The volunteers also went from door to door distributing pamphlets and calling on the people to not throw or allow anyone to throw garbage in the Bagmati River, and participate in the campaign, said Narayan Shrestha, a member at the High Power Committee for Integrated Development of Bagmati Civilisation.

Banners reading a 'Person throwing garbage in Bagmati will be jailed for three months and with Rs 100,000 fine,  so let's not throw garbage' were set up at a number of locations.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) employees have been authorised to arrest anyone found to be disposing of waste materials at the River.

On coming Saturday, the campaigners will head to Shobha Bhagawati Temple vicinity for cleaning up the section of Bishnumati River, Shrestha said.