Tukucha river: Hopes resurface in Kathmandu’s water system thanks to the assertive young mayor

On June 7, 2009, Kathmandu metropolitan city issued a notice asking people to remove all structures that were built by encroaching the Ikshumati river (commonly known as Tukucha river). Despite issuing the notice, the city did not mobilise its staff to go to the field and see if people had done what it had asked.

In 2019, the city government wrote to ward number 1 and the Kathmandu Valley Development Authority to search the river that had gone missing. The team of KVDA went out to look, but the local government never followed up on what their findings were.