Kawad businessmen have started a protest saying that Kathmandu metropolis has taken away their jobs. They have been protesting for five days, alleging that the metropolis has subjected them to various types of torture in a gangster style for two years, beat them up, destroyed the place where they were doing business, confiscated the bicycles of the laborers collecting the money and vandalized them.

They allege that the metropolis has been suffering for a long time with the thought of taking away their livelihoods .

On the fifth day on Friday, businessmen and Kawadi collectors gathered at Bhrikutimandap and protested in front of the Municipal Corporation office shouting slogans. Almost all of them had the national flag in their hands. They have put forward various five-point demands.

Their demand is to guarantee the right to practice their profession given by the constitution, to immediately stop the beatings, kidnappings, excesses and destruction of structures being carried out by the metropolis on the Kawad businessmen, collectors and workers . They have also demanded that legal action should be taken against the metropolitan police involved in such activities, the safety of the lives and property of kwads, businessmen, collectors and workers should be ensured and compensation should be given for the losses caused by the metropolitan police to kwad businessmen .

52-year-old Pradeep Shah of Rautahat, who has been working on kawad collection for 20 years, has been raising a family of 6 by doing kawad collection. But he complains that the metropolis has been causing pain for two years and is trying to take away the bread of people like him. Life seems to have ended by doing the work of Kawad. I ran the house with the money earned from this. What will you do if you can't even collect Kawad now? We don't have any other skills," Shah said. "The ration is over at home, and the phone calls to send money to pay the children's fees. When not at work, how to send from where? What should I eat here? I am very stressed. Rakesh Yadav of Rautahat, who has been working for 30 years as a waste collection worker, says that the metropolis has attacked him in his profession to drive him away from Kathmandu. He says, "The work we did made everyone's head ache ". What to do if you can't eat after working,' says Yadav. If we are not able to do this work, where will we go to work?'

Rautahat, 30-year-old Gauri Shankar Shah of Rajdevi House had also been collecting kawad for 10 years . His family of 7 was living from this profession. However, he said that after some time Kathmandu Metropolis said that he could not do the Kawad business, he was looking for a loan to run the house.

'We have never had this kind of stress before. After Balen came to the mayor's office, we hoped that he would make our profession more organized. But we were wrong. The work I have been doing is also being taken away," he said. There is only one request that we should be able to work as before.

The agitating Kawad businessmen and Kawad collectors say that they will continue their protest until the Metropolitan Corporation fulfills their demands. 50-year-old Rajesh Singh of Sarlahi says that the Metropolitan Municipality should address the demands of the kwadd businessmen quickly. "The Metropolitan Municipality has instructed to remove the Kawad business. After learning from Kathmandu, other municipalities are not allowing them to live,' he said. Dumping our stuff and driving a dozer to the store hurts . There is no option to fulfill the demand quickly.'