Transformation of Bagmati River corridor: cleaner, greener, and inviting, enhancing beauty (photos)

KATHMANDU: The Bagmati River, which has religious significance, is revered in Hinduism and Buddhism. The Bagmati cleaning campaign is ongoing in order to keep the river clean.

Although the river is not totally clean, the beautification process has contributed a wonderful and attractive beauty to the Bagmati river’s right and left corridors.

The Empowered Integrated Development Committee, which aims to make the valley’s environment clean, holy, and beautiful, protect the river system’s historical, archeological, and cultural heritage, and identify the entire Bagmati civilization, has prioritized the construction of a park in the Bagmati Corridor.

As the Bagmati River corridor through the Gokarneshwor Municipality area has gotten cleaner and greener, there has been an increase in the number of individuals exercising in the morning and evening. Every evening, a small fair is conducted on the banks of the Bagmati River near Attarkhel and Makalbari.

Since the corridor from Sinamangal to North Gokarna is clean and tidy, fairs are held in the evening today. The riverbank is gorgeous here, and the Bagmati flows free of rubbish and odor.

The river bank has become a popular area to walk amid the rising heat and bustle of home and business during the day. Kriyaputri House, a resting place in the Gokarna region, has also been built on the river’s banks.

Bagmati has been able to flow quite cleanly in that area because to the efforts of the Bagmati Civilization Integrated Development Committee, which is empowered by the Ministry of Urban Development of the Government of Nepal.

The committee has established 31 greenery and parks on the river’s banks with private sector participation, and river beautification work is being done in two packages along the Bagmati river over a 20-kilometer stretch with government and Asian Development Bank finance.

Footpaths, bicycle lanes, washroom, rest areas etc. have been built around the river. This exemplary work has changed the face of the city.

The project has beautified both banks of the 7.5 km river from Sinamangal North to Gokarna. A similar beautiness has also taken place in the area from Thapathali Bridge to Balkhu.