HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
Taulihawa, Kapilvastu
Lack of waste and sewage management and clean-up programmes are taking their toll on Kapilvastu municipality. Non-management of waste and lack of sanitation have turned the four-decade-old municipality into a stinking city. Pedestrians have to cover their nose while walking on the streets of Kaiplvastu’s headquarters Taulihawa.
Locals complain they have to bear intolerable stench at Chowkbazaar, Maltol, Kahartol, Sivamandirtol, etc. The Department of Road did not carry out clean up campaign on the road from Vikshu to Nayatol. Sewage abounds along with plastic, paper and sand. Consequently, streets are waterlogged. Gaudichowk, Nayachowk and Dhobitol have come under sewage causing inconvenience for pedestrians and motorists.
Thoroughfares in and around Taulihawa are in bad shape as potholes abound. Gopal Gupta, a teacher, complained that locals were hit hard due to piles of garbage and sewage water. Another local Rajendra Shrerstha, venting ire on municipal authority, said the problem had arisen due to the authority’s apathy to the need to take action against the encroachers. “The municipality was supposed to punish those who leave pets on the street and carry out the clean up campaign,” Shrestha demanded.
Kapilvastu Civil Society Chairman Dronaraj Subedi said the municipality had turned into a stinking hell owing to garbage piles “There is no proper sewage system. The entire bazaar area is stinking”, Subedi said. Resident of Maltol, Sangita Gupta, complained that municipality residents were suffering from jaundice, typhoid, diarrhoea and malaria due to intolerable stench. Executive Officer of Kapilvastu Municipality Hari Prasad Pandey said that fund crunch was to blame for the lack of sanitation.
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