How’s that again! Kathmandu city, conservationists at odds over a commercial building ‘in the place of a phalcha’

The Kathmandu metropolitan city has time again been accused of being insensitive towards conserving the city’s cultural heritage .

Over the course of the decade, the city government has helped businesses encroach heritage sites all across the city. Civil Mall and Chhaya Centre were built where there were ponds previously. Likewise, the local government did not say anything when Maharjan Complex was being built without following rules nor did it say anything to people using concrete during restoration and reconstruction of the Swayambunath stupa .