In Dimuwa market and Patichour, the environment has been affected due to unorganized garbage.
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The environment has become polluted because the municipality is not interested in managing the waste coming out of Patichour and Dimuwa, the main commercial markets of Modi rural municipality. Garbage is being dumped on the banks of the Modi River. As a result, the environment has been affected.
Dipendra Lamichhane, the ward president of Modi rural municipality-6, admitted that the rural municipality's interest and concern about waste management has decreased. He says that he is forced to throw garbage on the banks of the Modi river as he has not found a suitable place to dump it. He said, 'We know that it will affect the environment. But there is no alternative.
Dimuwa market's waste was dumped directly into the river, but now they are managing the waste by digging ditches, he said. On Fridays and Saturdays of the week, tractors go around the Dimuwa market to pick up garbage. He said that the market is growing and only three tractors of garbage are being picked up from the Dimuwa market in a week. "Since I became the president, we have been digging pits on the banks of the Modi river and dumping waste, even though it is only temporarily," he said. If we get it, we will carry out dumping by turning the waste into a stamp.''
Bajung-5 Wari Patichour of Lower Modi Khola Hydropower Dam has been throwing scattered garbage at the bottom of Munthir Dam. As it is the rainy season, all the garbage has mixed in the river. On the other hand, Patichaur across Deupur-2 has also been throwing garbage indiscriminately on the land of Nepal Electricity Authority by placing a barbed wire fence. There is Parvati river, Modi river and ghat nearby, so the locals demand that garbage disposal should be stopped.
Tourists who reach Kushma, Baglung, Myagdi and Mustang via Pokhara-Baglung highway have to go through Dimuwa and Patichour. This place is also known for fish. "Dimuwa, Patichour and especially Ambot are famous for fish," said Ravin KC, a local, "Tourists come eager to eat Modi's fish." But we throw garbage around that river. This is not a good thing. It is necessary for the rural municipality to pay attention in time.
Modi rural municipality chairperson Hiradevi Sharma said that the responsibility of waste management is ready to be given to private organizations. "Temporarily now, wards 5, 6 and 2 of the market area are managing in their own way," she said, "I have been working on permanent waste management ever since I was elected." This year, we will do the land finalization anyway.' She said that there are more than 700 households in Jar area of three wards alone.
