The Lumbini Cultural Municipality, which has been receiving criticism for dumping garbage inside the premises of Buddha's birthplace for years, has built a modern waste treatment center. The processing center has been constructed on a public land located between Manoharpur and Dhodahwa village located in Lumbini Cultural-5.

The name of the center is Sanitation Studies and Green Garden. In the initial phase, the municipality said that it has cooperated with the United Nations (UNDP) for the construction of a waste treatment center with an area of ​​5 bighas.

City deputy chief Kalpana Harijan said that after the operation of the processing center, the problems faced by the locals for waste management will be solved. She said that there is no waste disposal facility in the municipality and the waste emitted from local hotels and market areas is scattered everywhere. She claimed that some people have been dumping garbage inside the Lumbini Development Fund area and now it has been stopped.

'The problem was where to pick up and throw the waste of a decaying nature rather than non-decay,' she said, 'Wards No. 6 and 10 of the municipality are places where a lot of waste is collected, the problem will be solved after the processing center is operational.

Now she said that 10 new cleaners have been appointed for the operation of the center. Earlier there were 10 waste collectors in the municipality. In the first phase, UNDP helped to construct a tower in the processing center and install two plants. Also, 2 auto rickshaws for waste collection and more than 90 composting dustbins were supported by UNDP's head of communication Monica Upadhyay.

She said that a budget of 32 million 2286 thousand 682 rupees is required for the project which started in 2023. Out of the total amount, 21.7 million Lumbini Cultural Municipality will bear and the rest will be managed by UNDP in cooperation with the Japanese government . "We have purchased the equipment and the work will start with the extension of the power line," she said.

The plan to build a waste management center in Saina Maina Municipality of the district is going to be realized. Along with Sainamaina, waste from Butwal sub-metropolitan city and Kanchan Rural Municipality can also be managed at Sainamaina integrated waste management center. The meeting of the Federal Council of Ministers last Tuesday decided to approve the use of 3.5 hectares of forest land in the Khormor river upwelling area of ​​Sainamaina-10 Ekala Pahad area for the waste management center.

After the decision of the government, it has become a comfortable environment to start the waste management work, which has been stalled for years without getting the right of ownership of the forest land, said Suraj Neupane, head of the infrastructure development branch of the municipality. For the construction of processing center, Butwal sub-metropolitan city, Saina Maina municipality and Kanchan rural municipality signed an agreement 6 years ago and started the work.

"The chiefs at that time decided to partner for this work," he said, "because it is a forest land, the work could not proceed until we get the right of occupancy." Now, if an agreement can be reached with the forest department, there is a plan to cut trees within this year.

The plan was advanced to process waste to produce biogas, plastic pellets and make compost. He said that the Asian Development Bank has shown interest for investment support for the construction of the waste processing center and said that the environmental impact assessment for the construction of the center has been approved.

According to him, a special grant from the federal government was received in that area, which is within 5 and a half kilometers from the highway so that the forest is not affected. Under which road upgrading and embankment of 4 and a half meters has been built . He said that the estimated cost for the construction of the processing center is about 630 million, and this time the amount will be changed.

Tilottama Municipality, which has already been a leader in waste collection and management, is working on waste collection and management in partnership with two private organizations, said Gorakhnath Khanal, head of the environment branch. In the city, 42 employees are currently employed in every ward to collect and manage garbage every day. Common people have also become accustomed to putting garbage in the dustbins placed in chok chok.

Every month on the 1st and 15th of every month, a rule has been made to clean all tolls, wards and villages. "Ward-2 is working by forming its own management committee for the waste management of the city," he said, "Environment Sundar Nepal Pvt Ltd is working in wards 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6." Balbhadra Puri, managing director of the company, said that the unusable wastes are being buried in pits on vacant land near Tinau river located in Tilottma-5 and those that can be reused are being sold from the company's Kalikanagar-based segregation center.

Khanal said that the waste collection center built in Ward-8 with an area of ​​6 bighas has been installed and managed with technological equipment. He said that the machine will work in such a way that the piles of waste will be reduced and sold into small pieces, plastic waste will be sold separately, and compost fertilizer production will be done from one place. In Sukhora Khola Ukas area in Karaiya community forest area, Janasabhagita Vas Health Cooperative Society is collecting garbage from 7 to 17 wards of the city and providing employment with income from it. Khem Gautam, president of the organization, said that under the