Banchare Danda, Sisdole locals say waste has turned their ‘paradise into hell’

Amid locals’ protest, police escorted a caravan of garbage trucks to Banchare Danda on Friday.

Chandra Bahadur Balami was just 25 years old, had been married for a few years and was a happy man with a fulfilling life when the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) in 2005 began dumping garbage collected from the Valley in Sisdole. The agreement was that the area covering 750 ropanis (37.65 hectares) of land would be used only for three years.