KATHMANDU, August 28: The local residents of Sisdole where the Kathmandu Valley’s landfill site is located have expressed dissatisfaction with the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Mohammad Ishtiaq Rai, and the Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration, Rajendra Prasad Shrestha, who had gone there for a visit on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, August 16: There have been repeated clashes between the locals and the police in Banchare Danda.

KATHMANDU, August 15: The disposal of the Kathmandu Valley’s waste in Banchare Danda has resumed under police protection. Nuwakot police deployed a police team to provide security to the trucks carrying garbage from the capital to Banchare Danda.

KATHMANDU, June 28: The collection of waste management of Kathmandu Valley will be affected today and tomorrow as the road connecting Sisdole and Banchare Danda — which has been filled with garbage — has to be cleaned.

KATHMANDU, June 10: Minister for Urban Development Ram Kumari Jhankri has said that small management centers should be found as an alternative to large landfill sites for waste management in Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, June 10: An 18-point agreement was reached between the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) and the locals of Banchare Danda last night to take the garbage of Kathmandu Valley only at night from now onward. The agreement was signed for the waste management of the Kathmandu Valley at Banchare Danda-Kudule, Sisdole landfill site.

KATHMANDU, June 7: Locals at Sisdole have obstructed dumping of garbage in Banchare Danda. Stating that they do not agree with the agreement reached between the government and the representatives of the garbage dumping area, the agitating locals obstructed dumping of garbage in Banchare Danda on Tuesday morning.

KATHMANDU, June 3: People’s representatives of Sisdole in Nuwakot have urged the newly elected leadership of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) to relieve them of garbage smell. The site has been used as a dumping site for solid waste collected from 18 local levels in the Kathmandu Valley for years.

KATHMANDU, June 3: Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Balen Shah has assured to make Sisdole of Nuwakot odor-free within a week.

KATHMANDU, June 3: Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Mayor Balendra Shah and Deputy Mayor Sunita Dangol have reached Sisdole landfill site.

KATHMANDU, May 24: The waste collected in the Kathmandu Valley was dumped at the Banchare Danda Landfill Site for the first time on Tuesday. The dumping of the valley’s garbage started today with the completion of the construction of ‘Cell One’ of Banchare Danda landfill site.

KATHMANDU, Feb 21: Waste collection in the Kathmandu Valley remains suspended for over a week due to obstruction of the people along the Pasang Lhamu Highway en route to Sisdole in Nuwakot.

KATHMANDU, March 31: The Kathmandu Valley’s waste management has been impeded for the past six days because of the obstruction from the people of Sisdole, Nuwakot.

KMC to be without a landfill for months

November 26, 2018 09:36 am

KATHMANDU, Nov 26: Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has not yet readied an alternative site for dumping its waste for a few months when it will be left without a landfill site.

KMC fitting 1,800 CCTV cameras

October 6, 2018 02:30 am

KATHMANDU, Oct 6: The collection of garbage is a perennial problem in the Kathmandu Valley. While the collection of garbage is sometimes halted due to obstructions on the road leading to Sisdole, where the only landfill site is located, in many cases garbage remains littered in a number of collection centers due to 'laggard' cleaning workers of the metropolis.

KATHMANDU, July 15: Owing to packed Sisdole landfill site, it will take some more days for Kathmandu Metropolitan city to collect the garbage from the Valley. The garbage is not collected in the Valley for a month.

KATHMANDU, Sept 5: Locals residing near the Tinpiple-Sisdole landfill site are dealing with various kinds of health hazards due to unmanaged waste disposal.

KATHMANDU, September 3: Locals residing near the Tinpiple-Sisdole landfill site are dealing with various kinds of health hazards due to unmanaged waste disposal.