A cabinet meeting on Thursday took a decision to this effect. A week ago, locals at the landfill site had torched five vehicles and manhandled garbage workers of KMC over the death of a minor, who was crushed to death by a KMC garbage truck.
Following the incident, over 700 garbage workers associated with 11 labor unions had halted garbage collection. Though they resumed garbage collection two days ago, they have said that they cannot continue working risking their lives.
However, the government has yet to finalize number of police personnel to be deployed at the site.
Waling Municipality: Making the best out of waste
As waste management at the landfill site has become difficult due to lack of sufficient dozers, the cabinet has also directed the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (MoPIT) and the Ministry of Urban Development to provide sufficient equipment to KMC.
“We have not been able to dispose of garbage properly due to the lack of necessary equipment. We have not been able to collect household garbage for over two weeks now,” said Rabin Man Shrestha, chief of Environment Division at KMC.
Every day, over 700 metric tons of garbage collected in the capital is dumped at the landfill site. But in lack of equipments after the KMC vehicles were torched, KMC has not been able to transport even half the garbage collected in the capital.
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