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108 vehicles stranded in Kolkata

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KATHMANDU, July 20: One hundred and eight vehicles provided by the Chinese government to Kathmandu Metropolitan City for garbage management have been stranded at Kolkata Port in India for the last 10 days.



Environment chief of the Metropolitan City Rabin man Shrestha said the vehicles had arrived at the port on July 11.



The vehicles are worth US$ 1,816,288. Even at 1 percent customs duty, the KMC needs to pay around Rs 1.8 million to bring the vehicles to Kathmandu. He said the local development ministry wrote to finance ministry to release the customs duty the KMC has to pay to bring the vehicles here.



Shrestha said China has provided 108 vehicles including five ambulances, 50 four-wheeler small vehicles, 36 garbage picking vehicles, five lorries, four vehicles for cleaning the road by using water, two suction trucks, two road sweepers and four sewage suction trucks.


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