MUZAFFARPUR: Tirhut divisional commissioner Narmadeshwar Lal on Sunday asked officials concerned to keep a close watch on embankments in the region amid rise in water level in several rivers. The Bagmati has virtually created havoc in Aurai, Katra and Gaighat blocks of Muzaffarpur district, posting flood threat to 150 villages. …
Asian Development Bank has approved a loan of USD 80 million to modernise and expand the sewage network and treatment facilities in the Kathmandu Valley home to 2.5 million people. "Better and broader sewage and wastewater systems will improve health and living conditions and reduce river pollution in the Kathmandu …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved Rs. 6.89 billion ($80 million) loan to modernise and expand the wastewater network and treatment facilities in the populous Kathmandu Valley. “Better and broader sewage and water systems will improve health and living conditions and reduce river pollution in the Kathmandu Valley where …
The High Powered Committee for Integrated Development of Bagmati Civilisation, a government body formed to implement the Bagmati Action Plan (BAP), has formulated a new programme targeted at preserving environmental and ecological diversity of the Bagmati river. The plan to revive the dead river is being implemented with over Rs …
In yet another bid to clean up the heavily polluted Bagmati river, various stakeholders have started a Bagmati River cleaning campaign. As a part of the campaign, a 21km river stretch, from Sundarijal to Sankhamul, will be manually cleaned with the help from police personnel, volunteers, government officials and the …
The government’s High Powered Committee for Integrated Development of the Bagmati Civilisation, with support from the Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s Office, has started a clean Bagmati campaign aimed at scouring the Bagmati River of pollution and trash from the Gokarna water treatment plant to Sankhamool in the next month. Around 25 …
The Bagmati Civilisation Integrated Development Committee (BCIDC) has initiated a new programme to give new looks to the holy Bagmati River. According to the BCIDC, Asian Development Bank (ADB) is going to provide US 50 million dollars to improve the condition of upper to lower areas adjacent to the Bagmati …
Despite decades of restoration efforts by a rich ensemble of state-development actors, cultural heritage votaries and rights activists, the Bagmati is nothing less than a sewage canal by the time it meets its tributaries in Kathmandu. In her book Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu Anne …
The metropolis is all set to boost public participation in keeping the city clean by introducing a campaign “Clean Kathmandu-Our Kathmandu.” The metropolitan city aims to deploy 10,000 volunteers everyday for the week-long campaign beginning April 6 in the first phase. The entire metropolitan city area of 50.67 square km …
Renowned for its majestic Himalayas, Nepal is rich in its geographic, natural, and cultural diversity. Nepal has a population of 25 million, with approximately 85% of its population living in rural areas. The population is growing at a rate of 2.3% per year, and the ratio of population to arable …
In Kathmandu you can smell the Bagmati before you see it; in Sundarijal you can hear this river as it cascades down from its headwaters to nourish the paddy fields in the plains below the Shivapuri hills before it finds its way into the city, much abused and yet revered. …
The Bagmati loses its way in Kathmandu amid political vacuum and urban chaos. The chaos and urban sprawl of today’s Kathmandu have taken a serious toll on the stretch of the Bagmati and its tributaries that meet in the city. In the absence of clear guidelines regulating river water use …
For more than two decades, Huta Ram Baidya has led the Save Bagmati River campaign. An affable, octogenarian activist and Nepal’s first agricultural engineer, his views have been widely circulated in the country’s regional language press, radio, television and on websites. He tells Aditya Batra that the river’s extreme degradation …
One of your more quoted statements is that the Bagmati is dirty because there is too much money flowing in it. Bagmati is nature. She needs to be honoured and feared like nature. Feared like a teacher. She does not like money. Hindus believe when they die, they will be …
More than 70,000 families are facing the wrath of the turbulent Ganga in Bihar's Bhagalpur district. Aerial survey On Sunday afternoon, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who conducted an aerial survey of the areas ravaged by the river, however, told journalists here that “flood waters were receding” and that no major …
A high court order has not deterred a distillery in Sitamarhi district of Bihar from discharging effluents into the Bagmati. On January 27, the Patna High Court had ordered the Bihar State Pollution Control Board (spcb) and the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) to check pollution from Righa Sugar Company …
A high court order has not deterred a distillery in Sitamarhi district of Bihar from discharging effluents into the Bagmati. On January 27, the Patna High Court had ordered the Bihar State Pollution Control Board (spcb) and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to check pollution from Righa Sugar Company …
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal inaugurated the Bagmati Infrastructure Construction Development Project (BICDP) at Gokarna on Friday .Speaking at the programme, Prime Minister Nepal spoke of the importance of cleaning up not only the Bagmati and its tributaries, but other rivers in the valley, adding that refugees settling on the …
With major rivers in spate, there is no let-up in the overall flood situation in Bihar where 1.5 million people continue to reel under the deluge in 11 north Bihar districts. Rivers like Kosi, Mahananda, Bagmati, Kamala Balan and Adhwara have crossed the danger level at different places along their …
Probe may put Buta Singh in a fix on august 1, when the Bagmati river breached its sand embankment in Sitamarhi district, Bihar, it brought unforeseen trouble for the state
