Kathmandu Metropolitan City Archives

Disputed New Road footpath widening work continues after Patan High Court order

The earlier disputed widening work of the footpath in New Road has resumed after Patan High Court ruled in favour of KMC. The legal dispute between the Kathmandu Metropolitan City and the Roads Division Office, Kathmandu, which had previously halted the expansion began when the Roads Division seized goods and halted the footpath expansion initiated […]

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52 hospitals in KMC pledge a total of 375 free beds

52 hospitals within Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have pledged to provide free treatment to impoverished, helpless, and backward individuals. With a collective capacity of 3,744 beds, these hospitals have designated 375 beds, or 10 percent of their capacity, for free treatment. Kathmandu Medical College Sinamangal and Manmohan Memorial Medical College Swayambhu has the highest bed

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Bagmati river polluted throughout the Valley

Troubled Waters

Photo Story by Nishant Singh Gurung Not so long ago, children swam in the clean, cool waters of the Bagmati River. Today, such an act is unfathomable. In the last few decades, the once cherished Bagmati has been transformed into a noxious waterway put under assault by the constant flow of untreated waste from Kathmandu

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Where Do Your Poop and Household Wastewater Go?

By: Somi Panday One of the most brilliant interventions in human history is arguably an unexpected one: the toilet. We use it every day with hardly a second thought for what lies beyond the shadowy pipe we see when we peer down our commodes. Out of all the types of waste society produces, perhaps the

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KMC announces an inclusive and sustainable vision under new leadership

KMC’s mayor Balendra Shah (Balen), on Sunday announced an inclusive and sustainable vision for the metropolis for the upcoming fiscal year, in which cultural preservation and proper sanitation sees priority. The announcements were made from City Hall in the presence of Deputy Mayor Sunita Dangol and other KMC officials. With a theme of “Cultural City,

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Those benefiting from free PCR test to be disqualified from insurance

Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya had announced two days ago that the metropolis would conduct free PCR tests for people of the metropolis. Though the mayor’s announcement is unlikely to be implemented anytime soon, it is learnt that people undergoing free PCR test will be deprived of COVID-19 insurance money if they test

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Free food distribution shifted to Thapathali from Khulamanch

The spot for distribution of free food currently being conducted by good samaritans at Khulamanch has been shifted to Thapathali today onwards. Different volunteer organizations, including a Facebook group called 100s Group, have been providing free food to the needy and to those who lost their jobs due to lockdown issued for the prevention of

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Volunteers distribute food in open space as Mayor Shakya disregards his promise

As Kathmandu Metropolitan City couldn’t keep its promise to provide alternate place for food distribution to needy people after the Tihar festival, volunteers had no option but to continue distributing food in Khulamanch today. According to Hamro Team Nepal, a volunteer organization that has been providing food to needy people at Khulamanch since lockdown, an

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Kathmandu and Pokhara metropolis relieve taxpayers with subsidies

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has decided to spare all businesses from penalty on tax dues for the fiscal year 2019-2020. The decision was made as per the Finance Bill (2020-2021) tabled by KMC Mayor Bidhya Sundar Shakya at the seventh municipal assembly on June 24 to help business enterprises of Kathmandu district who are

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