INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, September 12
Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Nepali Army and Ministry of Forest and Environment have jointly started tree
plantation drive along the Tripureshwor-Durbar Marg road segment, in a bid to increase urban greenery in the capital.
As many as 500 tree
saplings, above five feet tall, are planned to be planted.
Tree plantation programme was jointly inaugurated by MoFE Minister Shakti Bahadur
Basnet, KMC Mayor Bidhya Sundar Shakya and high level NA officials.
In a brief conversation with media Mayor Bidhya Sundar Shakya said, &The
programme aims to develop Kathmandu into a habitable green city.& He also claimed that tree plantation was under way in all 32 wards and on
premises of public schools of KMC.
Mayor Shakya directed Environment Management Department of KMC to complete plantation programme targeting
Shakya one of the major election agendas during 2017 local level election was to maintain greenery in the city
Against this backdrop, KMC, on February, had decided to provide Rs 10 million to promote greenery, park construction and protection of
public spaces, to some neighbouring local governments.
Ministry of Forest has also declared the period between 2015 to 2025 as Forest Decade
with the theme ‘One house, one tree; one village, one forest; one city, one park&
At present, there are around 15 parks in Kathmandu
The local governance framework, required each local government to protect, public spaces and maintain greenery in the area.
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