STRUGGLE TOWN

Struggle in Ktm

Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal is the city of the struggle for everyone. Searching for better facilities and better education, many people migrate to Kathmandu. But the reality is that nothing can be achieved without a struggle in this city. Struggle for everything and for everyone. Students, as well as officers, face lots of problem living here. 

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE  

 I am a student living in Kathmandu. As a student, I have faced plenty of problems after migrating here. At first, the main problem of mine was finding a flat or room for rent. I was roaming here and there in the street of Kathmandu, the flat I found were either too expensive or very far from my college. It made me feel why did I chose Ktm for my higher studies but after some days I got a nice 2 room flat in samakhushi. But the problem didn't end here, another main problem was to reach to my college. Even though my college is like 6.2km far from my flat, I had to take two public vehicles (microbus) to get there. Two vehicles were fine for me but it was a huge struggle to get a seat in that vehicle and that's what I hated the most. I usually had to stand in such a low height vehicle.

Condition of people traveling in micro bus

The main fear of mine traveling in vehicle was pick pocketers. And there are plenty of those in the public vehicles of Kathmandu. Even though police are investigating those stuff, there are still existence of such crimes. Everyone should be aware about those crimes if they are traveling in public vehicles here.

Another main struggle for me was to manage time and I know its struggle for everyone. You can never trust road of Kathmandu neither the traffic . I was unable to manage time cuz of the bad traffic management . Sometime it took me 45 minutes to get to the college and sometime it took me 30 minutes but one day it took me more than 1hr because of huge traffic jam and I was late in college.

I love dogs more than humans and it hurts me seeing that even dogs are struggling to survive in Kathmandu. The condition of stray dogs is worst here.  

"The city of Kathmandu, Nepal is home to more than 22,500 street dogs. They are commonly afflicted with injuries from collisions with cars, starvation, open sores with maggot infections, severe skin problems such as mange, and infectious ailments. Puppies especially struggle to survive in hostile environments."

(http://www.katcentre.org.np/situation/)

    

DUSTY KATHMANDU

KATHMANDU OR MASKMANDU

Kathmandu being the capital city of Nepal is the most polluted city. Not only in Nepal but in the whole world its among the most polluted city. Living in Kathmandu is like living in a place full of dust and smokes. A non smoker of Kathmandu might have inhaled more smokes and dust than a daily smoker of a foreign country. It's such a shame for our country as 7 heritage sites lies in Kathmandu. 

Data Posted In The Himalayan Times

Kathmandu, known as the city of Temple, has now transformed itself into the city of pollution. It is a struggle for everyone living in Kathmandu. People cannot travel without wearing mask that's why I have named it as MASKMANDU. We can also hear people calling it "Dhulomandu" where dhulo means dust in Nepali language. Many cleaning campaign are being held in order to make it a suitable place to live but nothing seems to work. 

Personal Review

In my opinion, the pollution is the deep rooted problem of Kathmandu. Its increasing day by day. It has been problem for everyone. Me as a student its hard for me to get to college with a clean dress even if i wore the dress for the first time. Its same for everyone. Everything is polluted, from public vehicles to streets. Mainly it's because of bad road, every road in Nepal is consider as off-road as there are potholes everywhere. In rainy season it is a nightmare for everyone to walk in the street as they get splashed by dirty waters as the vehicles will drive through potholes.

 But if we go deeply into the causes, we can do nothing but blame ourselves as we are the one who live in Kathmandu and we are responsible for this pollution. It cannot be solved in a single day. Neither a single organization can solve it. It will take efforts of every person and mainly with the support of government. We should be aware about it and should start from ourselves. At first we should start at our own locality, should organize cleaning campaign. We all know a famous quote "Rome wasn't build in a single day". It will be applied in this case too as it will take a lot of time to make Kathmandu dust free but we should start from today with no excuses of tomorrow. 

 Cleaning campaign held by Divine Youth Club

NGOs and Governmental organizations also plays a vital role to make people aware about the problem and how to solve it. At first, government should manage wastes properly as well as road should be repaired. Rather than being depend on government we should change ourself. If we cannot find dustbin nearby, we should carry our wastes (like plastic, chocolate wrappers etc) in our bag or pocket and throw when we get home in the dustbin. A single change in our habit will change a lot. 

              GREEN KATHMANDU, CLEAN KATHMANDU...

ABOUT

Kathmandu

The Crowded City

Kathmandu is the capital city of Nepal. It is the largest city of Nepal with more than 1.5 million population. City is at a height of approx 1,400 meters or 4,600 feet above sea level. It is the most crowded city of Nepal.

Kathmandu is the center of Nepali arts, culture, history and economy. It is the most diverse city in terms of caste, culture, religion and language too. It has a multi-ethnic population with Hindus and Buddhist majority. Also known as home town of Newaris.

Hindus

Buddhist

Nepali is the most spoken language of Kathmandu but English is used widely. Still people use their native language like Newari, Gurung etc.

Tourism is one of the important part of economy as it is the gateway to the Nepalese Himalayas and home to seven world heritage sites.
"In 2013, Kathmandu was ranked third among the top ten upcoming travel destinations in the world by TripAdvisor, and ranked first in Asia. "

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathmandu)

The major problem of Kathmandu city are over-population, air pollution and bad management of traffic. It is the most populated as well as polluted city of Nepal. Kathmandu known as a struggle town for students as well as job holders. It is a tough city to survive but employment opportunity as well as quality education is provide so people have to migrate to Kathmandu. 

                                                                                                                      (Facts from wikipedia)