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...