Kaski local unit struggles to collect Rs500 million dues from crusher plants

Crusher operators say they can’t pay because extraction rates were raised unfairly.

Machhapuchchhre Rural Municipality in Kaski allocated Rs300,000 through a consumers’ committee to construct a foot trail from Kurli to Tilchi in the current fiscal year. The committee paid a total of Rs23,100 in revenue to the rural municipality. Shiva Bhandari, a local resident of Kalimati in ward 8 of the rural municipality, vented his ire on social media, stating that the local unit fails to collect millions from crusher plants, while ordinary people have to pay such a hefty amount for the development project worth just Rs300,000.