INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, March 5
Kathmandu Metropolitan City is facing difficulty to operate broomer machine on inner roads of the capital city
Potholes on inner roads are yet to be mended and the situation has posed challenge to operate broomers to clean roads.
Kathmandu
Metropolitan City office has been operating seven broomer machines for a year in a bid to realise its plan of dust-free Kathmandu
But results are seen only on the major roads
According to KMC Environment Department Chief Hari Kumar Shrestha, the campaign to make Kathmandu dust-free has been challenged due to
potholes on auxiliary roads
Use of broomer machines on main roads continues
Main roads generally do not feature potholes
Though their present condition is not satisfactory, condition of the valley roads has improved.
Improvement of valley roads is one of the
priorities of the government and in the past 100 days, 9,500 potholes were mended.
However, condition of inner and auxiliary roads has yet
to be improved.
The government aims to blacktop 85 kilometres of road in Kathmandu valley till the end of current fiscal year.
KMC said
mending of small roads had yet to fall under the priority of authorities concerned and it had been facing difficulty cleaning those roads
with the help of broomer machines, claiming however that dust pollution in the major roads had significantly reduced.
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