Kathmandu, March 4: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is facing a tough challenge to operate broomer machines in inner roads. Potholes in inner roads are yet to be mended and this is hampering the smooth operation of such machines for cleaning up road dust.
The KMC office has been operating seven broomer machines for the last one year in a bid to realize the campaign of dust-free Kathmandu. But its results are seen only on major roads. The responsibility for the management of roads with eight meters width is of the KMC office. According to KMC Environment Department chief, Hari Kumar Shrestha, the campaign to making Kathmandu dust-free has been facing setback as the potholes in auxiliary roads remain as it is. However, the use of broomer on large roads continues. Main roads generally are not fraught with the potholes. Works of maintaining roads’ beauty are going on.
Though the present condition is not sufficient to be satisfied, the condition of Valley roads has improved. The restoration of Valley roads is the priority of the government and in the past 100 days, 9,500 potholes were mended. However, the condition of inner and auxiliary roads has not improved yet. The government aims to blacktop 85 kilometers of road in the Kathmandu Valley till the end of the current fiscal year.
The KMC said the mending of small roads has not caught the attention of authorities concerned and it has been facing to clean those roads with the help of broomer machine. However, the dust pollution in the major roads has been gradually vanishing. RSS
