The locals have been staging protests demanding compensation to the family of a minor who was crushed to death by a garbage truck last week. "Garbage workers resumed garbage collection from Monday. But they have not been able to transport the garbage collected at the Teku transfer station to the landfill site," said Rabin Man Shrestha, chief of the Environment Division of KMC.
He said garbage collection is likely to be halted again if the locals continue to obstruct garbage disposal at the landfill site. The Teku-based transfer station has become a temporary dumping site. "The station has already far more garbage than its capacity," said he.
Over 3,000 metric tons of garbage has littered the streets of the city since last Monday. But there is no place to dispose of the garbage. Likewise, household garbage across the Kathmandu Valley has not been collected for over a week now.
Shiva Jee Bhattarai, chairman of Local Development Workers' Union-Nepal at KMC, said workers collected garbage only from the roads. "Heaps of garbage has piled up across the Valley since Thursday. But we could not collect the garbage because there is no place to dump it," said he.
Over 700 garbage workers belonging to the labor unions had stopped collecting garbage after locals of the landfill site manhandled some KMC workers and vandalized their vehicles last week over the death of the minor. The workers had halted garbage collection saying they cannot risk their lives.
The locals have demanded Rs 10, 00,000 compensation and employment to a family member of the deceased. Likewise, the locals have also been demanding the government to release two locals who have been arrested on the charge of torching KMC's vehicles.
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