KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 23
In a yet another drive to clear Kathmandu metropolis roadsides of encroachment, a team has started demolishing structures that house pharmacies along the road near Bir Hospital towards Mahabaudhha.
KMC's team, along with a number of city police personnel and a dozer, today reached the area to demolish the buildings.
KMC said it was doing so following due process of issuing 35 days notice to vacate the structure.
KMC employees had also used loud speakers asking shop owners to vacate the structures for the last few days.
The area where pharmacies were operated were supposed to be an open area and a garden of Bir Hospital as per the hospital's blue print.
But, there have been private pharmaceutical shops in the area for over a decade now. The shops were also paying monthly rent to the hospital.
However, KMC said it had removed the structures on the request of the Bir Hospital itself.
The country's oldest hospital was having a hard time removing private shops. It was in this backdrop that it had asked the local government to clear the structures and allow them to built gardens as proposed in the map as per KMC officials.
A version of this article appears in the print on September 23, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.
