The pure water of the Bagmati, which has been offered to Pashupatinath since ancient times, is still polluted. Since the 1950s, crores of rupees have been spent every year in the name of purifying the water of the Bagmati. It has been more than 30 years since the polluted water of the Bagmati was banned from being offered to Pashupatinath. Devotees who come to visit Pashupatinath are saying that this is hurting their feelings.

The water diversion plan launched in the name of the empowered Bagmati Area Sewerage Improvement Project is still continuing. Although a long time has passed since the master plan was made and work began, more than a billion has been spent during this period. However, its achievements have not been evaluated.

The plan to make the Bagmati a canal was started in the 1950s. On December 13, 2052, the then Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba laid the foundation stone of the sewerage tunnel from Guhyeshwori Tamraganga to Tilganga. The rapid but unorganized urbanization that began in Kathmandu after the political change in 2046 was the main reason for the pollution of the Bagmati.

Various factories in the carpet industry had been opened and employment was created, but complaints were heard that the government only blamed the government instead of managing it. If there were no strict laws to prevent pollution, the existing laws were not implemented properly. Kathmandu was declared a metropolitan city on Mangsir 29, 2052, but it was not able to work as planned.

The previous government had also put forward various slogans and programs to stop the pollution of the Bagmati. The government had prepared the 'Greater Kathmandu Sewage Disposal Master Plan'. But it could not be implemented. Deuba had launched its implementation. The government had allocated Rs. 164.6 million for that.

Under the project, a plan was made public to build a modern technology sewage disposal center on the east side of the Guhyeshwori Tamraganga by laying a 5-km-long humpipe along the banks of the Bagmati. The then head of the project, Hareram Koirala, informed that a plan had been prepared to make the banks of the Bagmati River green from Gokarna to Chobhar, build a green belt about 17 meters wide and an eight-meter wide road on both sides, and to keep the water of the Bagmati clean by constructing a sewer on both banks.

Under the first POC, a plan was made public to complete the construction of a tunnel from Gaurighat to Tamraganga and operate it in the second phase in 2053/054. It was the first time that such a tunnel was being constructed to manage sewage. Similarly, a study was also started for the construction of a sewage treatment center. It was estimated that 65 million rupees would be required to purchase land for the establishment of the treatment center and 20 million rupees for the treatment center. A study was started to construct sewers in the lands of Gokarna, Jorparti, Bouddha, Chabahil, Gaurighat and Pashupati areas.

A Bagmati Area Sewerage Construction and Improvement Project Implementation and Monitoring Committee was formed under the chairmanship of Bidur Poudel to control pollution. At the foundation stone laying program organized by the same committee, Prime Minister Deuba, Minister for Housing and Physical Planning Balram Gharti Magar, former Speaker Damannath Dhungana, MPs Bidya Devi Bhandari and Krishna Prasad Ghimire said that a planned effort was needed to stop the pollution of the Bagmati.

Kantipur Daily published a news on the implementation of the master plan to clean the Bagmati connected to Pashupatinath, which is on the World Heritage List, under the title 'Efforts to make the sacred Bagmati pollution-free' on 14 Poush 2052. The effort to clean the Bagmati, which started with the master plan at that time, is still ongoing. In the meantime, the political system and leadership have changed many times. Many people have also received political appointments in the name of Bagmati. Even now, crores of rupees are allocated in the budget every year. However, no fresh water has been seen flowing in the Bagmati.