Despite their years of revolt and movement against government's lethargy in finding new dumping sites, Sisdole locals continue to endure heavy stench from the garbage in the area. On Wednesday, they confronted members of the Parliamentary Committee on Good Governance for answers. The committee members had reached the landfill site situated on the border of Nuwakot and Dhanding districts to inspect the situation. Every day at least 600 tons of garbage is dumped at the Sisdole landfill site."When other temporary landfill sites could not accommodate the garbage of Kathmandu, they brought it to Sisdol with an understanding that the government would find an alternative landfill site soon and also would bring special development packages for the area. But nothing has been done so far," said Jit Bahadur Balami, former president of Okharpauwa VDC.
So far the government has been allocating Rs 10 million for the development of Sisdole area and has blacktopped eight kilometer of road. Although as part of the understanding, Balami says, the government was expected to do more in return.
Balami said that the government was supposed to construct schools buildings, hospitals, provide ambulances, blacktop roads, improve irrigation systems in the area and even assist in agricultural development.
"Very little of what was originally promised has been done. Even the repair and blacktopping of road was done only for the convenience of transporting waste to Sisdole," said Uttam Pathak, a local of Chetradeurali VDC-9.
The wide open area at Kuduley of Banccharedanda has remained unused for almost a decade now. Although 1,790 ropanies of land there was first proposed as a permanent landfill site for waste generated in Kathmandu, the decision remains in limbo so far.
"The problem of garbage management is still the same and the locals are still suffering," said another local Yadav Prasad Khakurel.
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