The only thing that has not been seen in the city market is that the garbage management of Bharatpur Metropolitan Municipality is not effective and is only a cover-up. The garbage of Bharatpur, which did not catch the eyes of the people who were passing by, was taken to the banks of Narayani river until the previous year because it was delivered to some distance from the market. This year, the garbage of Bharatpur has been dumped in Barandabhar forest, which is very sensitive for wildlife.

After reaching about two kilometers from the starting point of the Narayangadh-Muglin road, an information board is visible on the roadside. In which it is written "It is forbidden to throw garbage." 

Barandabhar is an important biological route connecting Chure Jungle and Mahabharata Mountain. Many rare animals such as tigers, rhinoceroses, and wild elephants of Chitwan National Park pass through Barandabhar and reach Chure in the south and Mahabharat in the north. Because it is a sensitive forest area where wild animals pass through, an 'under pass' was built for the movement of wild animals at the expense of lakhs of rupees in the Barandabhar forest area, which did not reach Ramnagar after the mango tree was cut on the Narayangadh-Muglin road section. 

The purpose was that the wild animals would pass through that 'under pass' because it would be a hindrance when driving on the road . Therefore, a notice board prohibiting throwing garbage in the 'under pass' area was placed. But since last year, the sewage of Bharatpur has been delivered about one hundred meters below the same 'under pass'. 

After the garbage started coming parallel to the underpass, not only the wild animals are being chased, but also other inconveniences have been added . On the 28th of Chaitra, the leaders of the ruling Congress and UML Chitwan reached the residence of Baluwatar to meet Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. The team that went with the district chairmen and other senior leaders of both parties demanded a 15-point and long-term eight-point plan for the development of Chitwan before the Prime Minister. More than 80 tons of garbage is produced in Bharatpur daily. But neither 15 points, nor eight points, no plan was requested for waste management. Renu Dahal of the main opposition party Maoist is the mayor of Bharatpur. There was also a discussion that the reason why the ruling party ignored Bharatpur's waste management while demanding many plans from Madi in the south to Lothar in the north was because the mayor was from a different party. But the issue of waste management could not be overlooked by the leaders of the ruling party. Prime Minister Oli came to Bharatpur on Baisakh 5 to inaugurate Bharatpur Gondrang 6 km road with 6 lanes.

Whose initiative was this road built? Four years ago, the district leaders of the ruling Congress, UML, said that it was the plan of the time of the then Prime Minister Oli. Similarly, the district leaders of the Maoists countered that this plan came to Bharatpur because of Dahal, who was then and still is the mayor. Mayor Dahal, who was able to speak at the opening ceremony in such an atmosphere, also demanded various plans from the Prime Minister. In that program, Mayor Dahal also touched Madi and Shaktikhor and demanded eight plans centered on Bharatpur. But he also did not say anything about waste management. 

The garbage of Bharatpur was taken from the market down to the Narayani river bank for two decades. During the dry season, when the whale grew, it could not be taken to the coast as far as in the winter. When trying to rebuild near the settlement, the locals used to block them .

So in the past, during the rainy season, the garbage of the market area was not picked up. But since last year, the problem of garbage not rising in the market even during rainy season was solved after the high tension line was started from Aamptari to Barandabhar forest. In this way, the waste of Bharatpur has not only been taken away from the settlement, but also the political leaders and representatives of the people.

But the stench that does not reach the settlement does not seem to be serious about the negative impact it has brought to the Narayani river, the main river of Nepal, and recently to the Barandabhar forest, an important biological route. The plan to manage waste by creating an organized landfill site has been limited to discussion for years. 

Garbage is piling up again in the place stopped by the court 

The then Bharatpur municipality used to throw the waste of the market in the Jaldevi community forest in Barandabhar area. About 20 years ago, Visheshwar Prasad (VP) Gautam, a legal practitioner working in Chitwan at that time, registered a writ in the then Appellate Court Hetauda asking to stop throwing garbage in sensitive biological pathways. According to the demand of advocate Gautam, the court stopped throwing garbage in Barandabhar forest area . At that time, an epidemic like cholera was spreading in Ganeshthan, a settlement under Jaldevi forest. It was speculated that it might be due to the garbage thrown in the forest. Even if that is not the case, garbage should not have been thrown in the biologically important Barandabhar forest," said Advocate Gautam. He said that they did not listen to the officials of the municipality. After that, Gautam said that he filed a writ in coordination with the pro-public organization. It's ironic if garbage was thrown in the same forest again. "The court is defamed," said Advocate Gautam.

Gautam said that because the municipality did not go to the Supreme Court after the then appeal order, that was the final order. Bissuram Kunwar, Head of Environment and Disaster Management Division of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, who looks after garbage and sanitation management, does not accept this. "Under the high-tension electricity line, we took it to a place like a den and buried it well with soil and gravel." We have not even dug a hole there. The plants were not pruned, there was no question of destroying . There has been no action against the order of the court," said Kunwar. He claimed that the underpass of Narayangadh-Muglin road was affected and that he did not throw garbage. 

According to Kunwar, 85 tons of garbage is currently collected daily in the metropolis. Out of which, 80 tons of garbage was delivered to Jaldevi forest and five tons of garbage was managed in the public land of Jagatpur Kerunga Gholchheu in Ward 23, he said. A private company has been given the task of garbage management for three years in the winter of last year. The company will pay 86.1 million rupees including VAT to the metropolis in three years. The contractor will have to pay the amount to the metropolis. That's why he also does waste recycling. Garbage collection fee is also charged from house to house. But since recycling is also done to generate income, there is less waste to be delivered," Kunwar said. About half of the collected is rotting garbage. 

Landfill site in private sector partnership 

Last June 8, Mayor Dahal submitted a plan to create a landfill site with modern infrastructure for waste management in the public-private partnership, i.e. PPP model, in the 17th Municipal Assembly. The city council also passed it . Not only in every municipal assembly of the metropolis, since Bharatpur Municipality was established, the issue of landfill site construction has started to arise. In February 2068, the government had decided to provide 15 bigha of land in Barandabharam to the then Bharatpur municipality to build a landfill site. Instead of that, the same land should be bought and planted elsewhere in the enrollment and handed over to the forest office. But it took time. After a long time, there was a report that buying 15 bigha of land for speculation in Madi was not suitable. 

After looking for land again, but it is not available, cash has been handed over to the forest office for compensation. "Now we are in the process of cutting trees on that land." Preliminary work of EIA has been completed . After the site is cleared by cutting the trees, the process of constructing the landfill site will begin in partnership with the private sector as well, said Sakar Lama, head of the proposed landfill site project of the metropolis.

Metropolis had previously entered into an agreement with Korea's Sudokon Landfill Site Management Corporation to create a waste management master plan in August 2075. It was said that the master plan will be prepared within 15 months of the agreement and then the construction of the landfill site will accelerate . But Korea did not start the work due to the corona epidemic. The topic of construction of landfill site in Bharatpur has been limited to discussions so far. The budget for the construction of the landfill site is very high. It was seen that the budget according to that was not done. You have to work very carefully in the process,'' is the experience of Sagar Karki, an engineer who is running a campaign about garbage management in Chitwan.

The metropolis is trying hard in other plans but not paying attention to the sustainable and effective management of the garbage fair, he said. Because the city's garbage was picked up from every house, the residents of the city also looked safe! They did not care about where and how the garbage of the city was taken and thrown. There is no pressure to ensure that the house is clean, Karki said.