PM should take special initiatives for waste management of Kathmandu: Leader Thapa

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress’s parliamentarian Gagan Kumar Thapa urged all the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) dwellers to actively support the campaign to make Kathmandu garbage free.

Speaking in the zero hours of the House of Representatives meeting today, Thapa pointed out the need for the Prime Minister to take special initiatives to remove legal hurdles relating to waste management.

“I urged Prime Minister to take special initiatives in removing legal hurdles and arrange resources for the wastage management in Kathmandu. It is also our responsibility to support the efforts of the Ministry of Urban Development and Kathmandu Metropolis for waste management,” said Thapa, also the general secretary of the ruling Nepali Congress.

He also urged other municipalities and wards connected to the metropolitan to coordinate efforts with social organizations to make the ‘Garbage-Free Kathmandu’ campaign a success.

Similarly, another parliamentarian Aman Lal Modi stated that students could not be enrolled in school for lack of a citizenship certificate and underscored the need to take forward the Bill relating to Citizenship Act (Amendment).

Similarly, Dr Amresh Kumar Singh questioned why the appointment of a deputy speaker in the HoR is being delayed. Singh opined that the post is dismissed if it is not needed.

He criticized that the parliamentary State Affairs and Good Governance Committee was not active and demanded to dismiss the Committee and deputy speaker post if both were not needed and no longer relevant.

Amrita Thapa demanded to enable a safe environment for the girl child and adolescent girls. She demanded an investigation into the 15-year-old Asmita Chaudhary’s abduction incident in Biratnagar and search and rescue for her and action against the guilty.

Aasha Kumari BK and Ganga Chaudhary drew the attention of the parliament to growing cases of rape and murder in the country, citing a 7-year-old girl child was found dead in Surkhet district and gang rape of a minor girl in Banke district. They demanded stern action against those involved in such a heinous crime.

Umashankar Argariya lamented that farmers were facing a scarcity of fertilizers repeatedly in an agricultural country like Nepal and urged the government to pay special attention to it as paddy plantations would soon begin in the country.

Krishna Bhakta Pokharel urged the Speaker of the HoR to make concerned ministers respond within five days regarding the availability of fertilizers to farmers while Jhapat Bahadur Rawal also nailed down when would the government provide fertilizer to farmers.

Krishna Bahadur Rai questioned the delay on the part of the government for the construction of roads in various parts of Kathmandu Valley including Panityanki Tinchule Road and the Jorpati road section.

Khadgaraj Adhikari urged the government to address the ongoing padlocking issue at the Tribhuvan University.

Khem Prasad Lohani demanded action against the perpetrator of the Bardiya incident where a teenage girl was allegedly killed in police firing. Lohani urged to ensure the medical treatment to the injured ones.

Gopal Bahadur Balami said that the inmates in the Mugu district were facing various problems and called for effective prison management.

Ghanashyam Khatiwada lamented that although the contract had been awarded for the Bakraha River project and others in the Morang district, no works have been forwarded yet.

Chand Tara Kumari viewed that some online media were involved in character assassination of the political leaders and celebrities and appealed to the concerned authorities to bring those involved in such acts to book.