Devise Resettlement Plan For Squatters

While standing as a mayoral candidate of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) in local polls, Balendra Shah had vowed to work in close cooperation and coordination with all the relevant agencies and stakeholders in carrying out any development activity. Shah must have felt it necessary considering an utter lack of coordination between and among different agencies such as the KMC, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), Nepal Telecom, the Department of Roads (DoR), Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP) and Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited (KUKL). No sooner had any agency built or blacktopped a certain road section than another dug it to lay down water pipes or electricity or telephone wires or manage the sewage system. That really caused a lot of distress to passers-by as well as local residents because that road used to be muddy in rainy season and dusty in dry weather.