Kathmandu, December 5:

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) may stop collecting garbage from tomorrow.

If this happens, stink emanating from garbage mounds will be unbearable for Kathmandu denizens.

The Teku Transfer Station of the KMC is full of garbage collected from Kathmandu metropolis as people living around the Okharapauwa Landfill Site have barred the disposal of garbage since last Sunday.

“We will have to stop collecting garbage from the city from tomorrow,” said Rabin Man Shrestha, chief of the Environment Management Department of the KMC. Heaps of garbage were seen in many parts of the metropolis today. Chief executive officer of the KMC Dinesh Thapaliya, however, said solid waste generated in the city will be dumped at the riverbank behind the Teku Transfer Station if groups opposing garbage dumping there give us a go-ahead. “We are holding talks with the disgruntled factions. Locals living near the riverbank have agreed to let us dump garbage there temporarily,” he said.

Thapaliya said the Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City has been disposing of garbage at one side of the Bagmati river and nobody is opposing it.

Meanwhile, the KMC handed over a letter to Speaker Subas Nembang and the offices of the parliamentary parties today, demanding that the House pass a stricture requesting the parties, organisations and local bodies not to bring garbage disposal to a halt at any cost.

Thapaliya said Nembang was positive on the request and had assured him to work on the matter. The metropolis has also requested the parties and the Speaker to make efforts to solve the problem.