FRAGMENTS OF MY LIFE

It feels as if it were yesterday we talked on the phone, I heard your voice and we laughed a lot, when smile comes in my face; feels as if it has been years we built the wall of silence between us when I am encircled by my solitary days and nights. Needless to mention of the days and nights I have spent without you were like hell, the strength of the feelings that's enriching inside me is amazing. You must have changed. That big eyes I used to dive into must have gone even more sparkling, the inflated cheeks I tempted to cup in my hands must have been soft, softer than before and the way they get red when you blush must be cute, and those sexy lips I can't explain. The hair must have grown longer. Your skin might have wrinkled and I bet you would still be looking charming with those lines in your skin. So much might have changed in you, your voice might sound different though it echoes it my mind all the time. You must have lost a lot of pounds because of working everyday, if not, then must have gone fat and yet sexy. Sometimes, I get the feeling if you would ever recognise me when i come to you at the time you get old or if you would consider taking me in. No one have been able to affect me the way you did or may be I didnt let them. I still get your pictures in my mind while praying. I am aching because I dont know how to react to such an absolute feeling like never before, and it makes me wonder what makes it so intense and true. It made me think if you were the only sweetest ever happened to me, I believe its not a lie. I dream sometimes, how hurt you will be when I come to you in our old age, may be get mad at me for being so late. I hope you will forgive me of all the mistakes I have done that time, all the pains I have caused and all the tears I let fall off your eyes. I'm paying the price now for how I hurt you every day every minute and every second, I hope you would move the biggest stone off my chest at that time. I dont want to die without spending my some part of my life you or my soul will never rest in peace. To let know my heart is more stronger than before and learning more from my mistakes. The distance doesnt bother me much since I discovered the depth of my truth. Nothing can shake me away from my dream and together with you is where my destiny. The depth of true love is not how close you are and feel for each other but how far you stay yet feel stronger more and more each day.
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I was with my friend talking when are we going to finish our BE and get ready for our job hunt, when i heard my mom calling me; her tears almost melting from her eyes. Its again my cousin getting unconscious the second time. I rushed to her house thought didnt know what to do. I was thinking what possibly can i do while travelling the first floor. I peered from the third floor stairs to the fourth floor thats where i saw my elder mom holding my cousin in her arms trying to keep her awake at the same time. She was calling her name wishing her to hear all the words she said. As i gazed over my cousin's face i can tell she could hardly hear anything. Saliva floating through her mouth i see her eyes half closed or half open i should say. She was finding it hard to keep her eyes open but fighting every minutes hold on. I remember all the words she said about being sacred to die. I hold her hand and shook her up trying to make her belief everything is going to be or or trying to believe myself. I was definately more sacred at this time than her because she didnt know whats happening to her. The two of us worked a worthless try i should say. Her hair messed up legs spread all ever the floor and the color of eyes some what changed its color. I have never seen her this way. She was pretty, cheerfull and always good looking. My elder mom figured it out it was not her. Slowly most of the relatives moved to the room that make it look small everyone with the same bewildered expression in their face wondering what has happened to her yet noone has any answers. Suddenly the expression on her face changed- fighting for life to smiling on everyone leaving everyone perplexed. Only then my elder mom know what was wrong. She figured it out. Yes it was not her. She has been possessed by someone or something- a soul an evil. Most of the audience guessed by the way she looked at their eyes. Yes she has been possessed by an evil soul. I didnt know how to react and i drew back my place occupied by my sister. After it was confirmed she has been possessed by an evil soul, all the comforting words faded and turned into scold. My elder mom scolded her so much asking her who she was and why is she doing this to her only daughter. With each scold the smile from my cousin's face disappeared and filled it with an expression a question or a more straight or say piercing look. I see the hatred dissatisfaction and anger in her eyes all at once or may be none because noone could figure it out. At the time everyone was trying to drive the evil soul away from her body i was trying to find a medical explanation o this situation. Of course i find none.
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14-3 i.e.14th march. Not a big day when I came to this world but someone made it so special that I may forget the day I was born but this day. That “someone” then marked it as my date of birth (though its not my date of birth), the very special day making it even more so just by pronouncing it through her sweet lips. Those were the days when you walk on your way being an ordinary guy- the world Damn care about what you do or think or they would hardly feel if you exist then that “someone” walks into you life though you were so sure you have locked up all the doors. She breaks in; opens all the doors giving you a new art of life and make you feel special out of an ordinary life. Suddenly the world seems to care about you as if in a joy ride side by side. Someone finds you when you were not even searching and you don’t even mind to fall head over heels simply because you can’t help it. The first time you see her smile, instantaneously, nothing seem to matter but the spark that comes on her face on each smile like a glitter in the sky on each full moon. You don’t have to try to forget everything after the smile because there would certainly be nothing left in the mind to think more than the glimpse of smile. Then you started dreaming about it every night as you go to bed with it. Every time you pray and see that smile which doesn’t seem to leave your memory by any cost as if a haunt. But haunt makes people sacred where it brings pleasure with it. Now you accumulate all you strength to think of an idea to make her pull those lips and smile even if you have to be the craziest; you adore it. You go for the silliest joke, act or word because you see the world within that smile; not the world which didn’t know you existed but the one which knew exactly who you are.

The slight change in that smile and the pain starts the fear of the most important person being fade away or might just remain in dreams. The pain of  being apart which didn’t bother before started striking your heart like a ticking clock always make you aware you lack of something, someone. You swallow it deep down in your heart but the pain melts through you eyes each drop reminding of how deep the feeling is. The bond between two hearts is so strong even the heaviest metal can’t cut it through and so light at the same time that a slightest wind has potential to blow it away. But the thing that’s shared between two are never carried away. You can erase what’s written on the surface but the depth it has penetrated will last till we are gone and what’s in the depth re-suspends on the surface in time and again. You may try to leap forward but the heart stays one step back still hoping for reunion with what she has been separated. Whatever be the reason, they are no worth for holding back the two loving hearts for that long time. But will someone wait for me the way said till the skin gets wrinkled? The only way to get the answer is to stand before her and ask it. The fine cloud has been drifted away but I believe it rain again just for me this time. I’m still missing the things because I know the things that I have though I don’t say it anymore only because of the fear of being misunderstood. I’m scared the repetition of my part of truth might make is false. I have always been told I would be giving up quickly when I always tell that I will not. I want to see who it would be to give up first. The feeling inside me is not hidden for me no matter how much I’m incapable of showing it to others. I’m just waiting for that day which I have dreamt of long time and I will get it one day. I wish is almost everyday.

As I walk down the streets on my way to home or college, I don’t see as much flying balloons filled with water, as I used to, targeted to the so called beautiful girls. The day of colors is just a single day away but I see no sign of it in my perimeter. May be I am too much concerned with my project that’s why the celebration by others pass unnoticed. But the charm of this special day has definitely diminished at present. Today I stayed home, still the hangover from last might has not gone yet, but I don’t have to force myself to think about the good memories that I had at this day in the past. Though it’s chilly right now but the fun we had on this date a year ago keeps me warm, excited and pleasant. Visiting my friend and making him all wet right under his balcony was definitely a fun. It was even more excitements for a person like me who loves rain to chase and throw buckets of water onto each other and trying to be most dried at the same time. We neither minded what we are going to wear to get back home nor did we care when we are going to get back home. Everything was so much fun that we forgot almost everything for the moment- worries, responsibilities (as we didn’t mind emptying the water tank that was supposed to be used for construction purpose) ,tiredness (as we didn’t care though we were out of breathe) and pains(our cheeks were hurting because of laughing of a lot hehe). We didn’t even stop calling some more friends to join us to add up fun and the way the girl next door participated secretly just to get some water filled plastic bags hit over her head was definitely an amusing trailer to watch lol. All the other guys and girls eyeing us with an expression of jealousy and 'wish I had that day' look in their face. Tease in our gait and 'are you envy?' in our eyes each time our missile hit the bulls eyes,;-). Later we came to realized We really got tired throwing our projectiles of water filled plastic bags to the kids who joined an hour ago. We were the kids once again with our almost wrinkled face hahaha. As the evening deepened the cold breeze made us shiver, the nature asking us to stop. The only thing that could keep us warm inside was the sips of hot tea and of course the good memory that we had made that everyone is going to remember in the days to come. Yes it’s HOLI again; though the time we spent can never be played back the memory of it can still make the day pleasant.

I didn’t cry all part of my tears yesterday, left a part of it so that I can cry today as well. I wanted all my family members to see me when I am crying especially my mom. Yes, I know what you all are thinking right now- I am weird. Whatever you think I know who I am I did what I thought was right for me; for everybody actually and if everything goes what I have planned then I am sure everyone will thank me for what I have done, my mom especially. That's why I didn’t want to cry alone last night. I helped my mom go to bed and shed half of my tears. Later on I thought why I should cry alone when no body knows what I am crying for. Anybody would have hardly heard my utter. I wanted to let them heard me out loud but then everyone would have asked me what's wrong. I don't want to answer them. I just wanted to cry in front or few meters away from them and they don't ask me the reason at the same time. Both my parents have been to bed and I can't ask them to see tear drops in my eyes. My brother is not around so I called in my elder sister and let her hear me and guess what I have been doing. She asked me many question why? How? What? But the questions were not what I wanted to hear. I just wanted her to hear me crying. That's why I turned off my phone. She tried to call in again but I never answer her. I didn’t want to. After few minutes she my phone rang again. It's my sister again. I didn’t want her to worry about me just wanted her to listen to me when I am crying so I answered this time. I told her to visit me tomorrow because I am not done with my pain and hung up the phone. I heard her say she would visit me in the morning then I hung up in the middle. I know i left her worried about everything though I didn’t want to. Guess I have no choice. I wanted it so badly which prevented me from being rational.

It was a great morning till we had that conversation. Living in the same room both being unable to figure out when to watch the newly rented dvd, as of course the very load shedding over ruling our lives, my bro suggested to watch the movie the very morning. I chuckled at the idea. We Both have just woke up, had our tea yet under our blankets ( he is under his blanket and i am under mine if case you are wondering ;)) making plans for the day. Figuring out me saying myself ' its a bad idea to watch the movie that early' , he gave me ' so what' look and started explaining his logic behind suggesting to watch the movie. The reason was surely the black out at 8am. Its already 6:30. I proposed him to copy the movie so that we can watch it later on that--- -would be in the evening. Hard heartedly he accepted it but ordered me to copy it though he was the one nearest to pc. Order is order. I didnt want to but my bed has to live without my warmth for few minutes till i am done copying. I guess its just the opposite. I inserted the cd in the ROM and with my shivering hand i am in my job to copy the movie while my bro,with all his body inside his blanket and head popped out out of it, checked on me copying the disk. But what i thought was not the easy one. I am not even done half copying and pc freezed i am sure it's not because of the cold. I tried every possible techniques that i know for sure but the pc doesnt seem to be cooperating. So i was left with only option - poke its belly bottom with my index finger. I didn't look at my bro's face because i know he was giving me ' what the hell was that' look. Actually he was not just giving that look but all set up to say it. I knew it by the way he fly aside his blanket. Then he was just behind my back.

..................to be continues ( gota get off the bus hehe)
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Anyone living in Nepal wouldn’t have to be explained what's the present problem that we are facing! I have also explained about the load shedding i.e. the daily cut off of electricity within the country 14 hours a day affecting every field of economy in my previous posts. The government seems to have taken no or little steps to solve this situation. Of course that was what I thought. Guess I was wrong. :). I heart from my friend that the government has called for the bid in order to encourage the use of CFL bulbs which is supposed to have the capacity to solve the present problem if used by every citizen of the country. Isn’t it great? At least there is a ray of hope to solve what we are compelled to face. The development of a nation is indicated by the amount of the electricity consumed by it. So what is the development situation of Nepal? With a load shedding of 14 hours a day, any one can hardly imagine the progress. What I think about the step that government has initiated is good but still more can be done. The bid asked for the organizations that can provide the CELs bulbs at low cost or free of another with a buying of one. Similarly I think the discount of 5% can be given in the total cost of monthly Electricity bills or certain card system can be given for those using the CFLs at home. The work is difficult but still can be done as there is a saying “nothing is impossible in this world”. Also for those having the CFL utilization card would get a first priority say while paying the bills or get the first priority in any government office while getting the work done. If there is a conflict between the card holders then the first come first served system can be applied as usual. If the concept of using the card system can create the problem when two card holders comes for the same word then the next concept can be used. Two separate lines can be make in the government organization where lots of people come -one for the card holder and the next for the normal user without card E.g. in paying electricity bill, petrol pumps and discounts can be given to the card holders during festivals fate or exhibition like all the students are getting. All the fields where has maximum public interest a separate facility should be provided to those who are using CFL bulbs. This would be the appreciation of the government for their help and support. Recently I have seen long lines of students applying for the sim of Nepal telecom when it was made available for them for just Rs 510 with talk time of 500. It could have become successful in gathering mass attention. So why not giving the same offer for those who are using CFL bulbs in their home? I bet it will skyrocket the use of the bulb which will definitely reduce the present pressure on electricity. The only obstacle to the above idea would be the rejection of telecom but that would not be an unsolved problem if the government is really serious about it. But of course for the implementation of the above techniques a lot of homework has to be done. And it will definitely be the quicker method than the thermal power plant. All the offers that I have discussed didn’t have to be for ever. The new concept can be in use for some months or 4/5 years at most then it could be dismissed. By that time every family would have installed set of bulbs in every corner of their house or a new large hydro power plant of lots of small and micro hydro plants would have be developed. I know some of you must be thinking it would be like cheating to implement the idea for some years and then dismiss it. Tell you what we have no choice and we can take the example of spice Nepal who has taken the market with the similar scheme of 1 paisa per call for interconnection and later 20 minutes of free call scheme and the truth is it’s still hasn't gone bankrupt though both of the schemes have been dismissed. Isn't it the time for the government to learn something from the example what's so close to their eyes?
I can see a lot of things which can still be done if the government is really willing to do something.
Today I was on a micro which was supposed to take a turn through RATNAPARK but instead the root was changed to a longer distance from JAMAL. The micro had to take a longer distance in order to reach the same spot. I am sure the step was taken by the valley traffic in order to control the flow. But from my view I felt like it’s a punishment for not respecting them. Being a frequent traveler of this route, I have found the drivers of my route the most irresponsible one. hehe. Yeah it’s bitter but the truth. So why can’t the government apply the same penalty equation for those who are not using CFL? And the addition of 5 to 10% on the total cost of electricity bill can be done for those not using CFL bulbs. ;) The concept of adding 5 to 10 percent more on the total electricity bill to those consumers not using the CFL bulbs is of course derived from the universal law of pay per pollution. I like this concept of giving the limited permits for pollute to the countries which will ultimately limit the pollution they can do for definite period of time and if their factories are producing more pollution to than the permits they have got, they need to buy the additional permits from those countries that pollute less than their permits. Taking more from the non user of CFLs and giving discounts to those who are using is the same as the permits. The field of application may be different but the concept is the same. Or just like the carbon trading rule where the countries emitting more carbon has to invest some of their incomes in the development of those under developed countries who have been affected by their emission. If the concept can be applicable at the global level definitely it can be at national with some constraints of course because no pain no gain.
No rules can be implied till it’s done by the force and after its implemented for some month it will be a practice.

Today after my hydro power class i was made to fill up a form by my friend.I should say i filled up the form given by him because he did not actually made me do that. He just asked for it and i volunteered him. Yeah this line is appropriate. Hehe. Ok let me tell you what the form was all about. Well its a single sheet paper with some questions on both sides. Actually it was a kind of survey which was made by him and the other fren as he said. Its our last year in our college and may be he thought he should do something different to get noticed or something like that. Of course i didnt mean be skeptical about it. I liked the idea as long as on one takes the whole thing personally. Oops guess i have forgotten to tell what the questions were all about. They were funny ( by funny i mean he they are followed by the respective answers ). The questions were like who is the most romantic couple, hero of the class, most skeptical person, the handsome ,the beautiful, the trouble maker the source of distraction etc..... For someone it may the source of embarrasement while for the others it may be just a fun an nothing more. Atleast it would be a memory for whatever we were in the class. ;-) keep it up guys hope the fun always continues in everyone's life.. Will miss the fun we had together.
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It has already been 6 pm and my room is still dark. Its not because i dont have tube lights in my room but there is no electricity. I am standing in front of tv and the computer but they are all dead without electricity. My room has been silent since 12 o clock this noon. The heavy music used to show my presence in my room but latety silence has been my company. And to be honest it disturbs me much than the music; distract would be the right word to say. I smile at my desktop and it smiles me back -"both of us are having long rests (may be what she is thinking). I have got to write a paper on hydro power on sunday. Funny isn't it? I read a question on my old question collection which says " how do you justify the relevance of hydropower development in nepal ?" for those of friends who might have read this question right now must be thinking it would be foolish to answer this question.Lol!! Because it doesnt need words to explain the present situation and as far as the relevance is concerned it is a must. With 83 thousand MW potential as seen in most of the papers, the present production of 600MW is definately shocking. Only 20% of the population has access to electricity of which only 5% of the rural populatio so far has access to grid supplied electricity (WWA and IHA, 2003) and the fact continues..... We dont lack so called master minds who can really make a difference, we have skills as well so what's not letting us to do what we need and what we can? Is not it a time to postpone the constitution and rather go for what is needed most? Its just a question or may be some other have different views about it. But its definitely time to think seriously than going after some stupid fights. We have a whole life to fight with each other now is the time for something else. Oh my god still on light. Want to put off tug of war between my thought?
need to study.... Phew!!! Its again hydro power. Where do i start now HMmhmhm. Lets dive through the intake...........

YET AGAIN NEW LOAD SHEDDING GUYS. GOTO THE FOLLOWING LINK TO SEE WHEN YOU ARE LUCKY!! LOL :D
LOAD SHEDDING SCHEDULE FROM 23 JAN 2009

The thing which has the power to make you the happiest most also has the power to make you the most miserable. It is the smallest price you have to pay for being loved.

14th of jan 2009:
yes its the 1st of Magh of Nepali calender and ofcourse the time to celebrate the very great festival of massage (hehe) Maghesankrati!! here is the festival fun and the facial that me and my cousins had that very day. it was realy fun that day coz i had facial. wanna be handsome lol!!!

see the difference? hehehe. if you kinda confuse thats ofcourse me having my facial done by my cousin. does anyone think that I am cute than my cousin???? hehehehehehe

still a lot of pictures to come but the network isnot allowing me to.who took the following pic??? My cousin fooled me asking me to edit her GPRS so that she can chat through her celllphone. she said it was not working. of course it's not working. how could it when her sim has oradi expired!!!!

Now here comes the hair dressing!!!!! the tradition or the modern??? no idea!! need to ask my cousins!!
By the way its good! I am not talking about the hair but the hair style hehehehe

Happy new year to all those who have visited my blog in the past; to those who are visiting now and also to those who will be visiting it in the year to come. Happy new year also to those who haven’t visited my blog; don’t want to visit my blog or already visited my blog but don’t want to come back again. I know Google will bring you back here again. ;). My warm heartily wishes to those who are madly in love, who are yet to fall in love and who have fallen in love but lost- hang on someone will definitely find you once more. My sweet regards to all those who love to dream and dream about the one they love most, to those who dream to love and fall in love with the one they dream about, and to those as well who are desperate that they can nether dream nor love, on this new year – coz life starts with a dram, love cherish it and though sometimes every things seems to go wrong, a new life comes out of the “so called hell”. On the occasion of this new year all my care to those who smiled though their heart ached just not to let others know and to those who cried till their eyes sore just wishing someone wipe their tears if any- two thumbs to you all, you have survived a whole year and surely a brand new life is waiting for you in this new year. My smile to those who laughed so much in previous year that theirs eyes tear, who were overjoyed to find the happiness on someone’s face – hope you will have the same luck in every new day.
In this new day my company to those who have no one and thus are alone, who have everybody yet alone and who has someone who wants to be with but don’t know why wants to be alone – you may be confused but I know deep down your heart you don’t want to be alone. You all don’t deserve to be alone. You deserve something more and that’s why you are special. In this grand day, my congrats to those who have a party and lots of people to be with, who have small group of friends to talk to, have a family to have fun with or have at least someone who s/he can touch and feel just to give a sense that you are not alone – you are the few lucky one and that’s why you are special. This New Year, may the first drop of rain that fall on us wash away all our sins, may the first kiss on her cheeks make her forget and forgive all the pains that we’ve caused to our loved ones and may the new breeze fill us with the new dreams and enthusiasm to fulfill them. May this new year make us more responsible, more mature but more childish to someone coz they are adorable that way.  hope this new year helps us to stick to what we have, to move on to someone and to carry everything with and walk along.

LAST WISH ON THE LAST DAY OF THE LAST YEAR AND FIRST WISH ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 TO YOU ALL!!

I wasn’t aware of it till I heard the news about the enforcement of the news about load shedding schedule in BBC (yes it was on BBC headline) 70 hrs a week which was exactly double of what Nepali were experiencing for the time being. The valley will have the electricity cut off 62 hrs a weeks and the rest 70 hrs. till then I didn’t know about NEA( Nepal electricity Authority), so called only government institution making maximum profit, has been running on debt for few years. Good news to NOC (Nepal Oil Corporation); you have got a company! LOL!! The new load shedding schedule seems to have made everyone busy except me hehe. School and college seems to have been busy rescheduling the practical classes and labs, teachers teaching through projectors seem to have been busy rescheduling their classes, housewives busy on rescheduling their cooking hours while I am happy on getting extra hour of my tight hug of my favorite pillow under my nice blankets in the cold morning. Hehe. You don’t need to tell me I am lazy because I already know that but I guess you really need to let NEA know theat. While designing electricity demand few years or decades back they must have forecasted what present demand would be. They seem to have done nothing though they know the production was going to be insufficient. Or may be the government don’t let them do anything I don’t know what’s the reason. But I guess someone has defeated me in laziness. LOL!! To be honest I have nothing to lose due to this load shedding. I get to sleep 7pm in the evening, eat my dinner as early as 6:45; don’t have to wake up before 8 in the morning. Even my love of listening music, need not to be sacrificed due to the help of Chinese products. I just need to make sure they are charged as the light comes. You might be thinking how I am going to write my posting with no electricity right? To be honest it has done much more help. I write them up in my cell phone before I type in my pc. All I miss is reading my Novel “Lucky” by Alice Sebold which I have been trying to finish for abut a week. But I wish my country doesn’t sleep just like me or what’s going to happen to 22 million people except me hehe. For me it’s ok but you can’t go after the benefit of a single person in a republican country like Nepal can u? LOL! I heard Nepal is going after the thermal plant to fulfill the present additional demand but I didn’t find what’s fascinating about it in spite of all the engineers’ disagreement about the decision! Might the government is fascinated about the decrease in price of petroleum products on which everyone’s sure WONT LAST FOR LONG! Or may be the government is just trying to save NEA though it has to sacrifice NOC. I feel it more like replacing the right hand from being eaten by the machine by the right one. Or who knows government is more interested in the rate of Rs. 30 or even more per unit after the production which would definitely be a great revenue ;) what I am worried about is how it will make people willing to pay Rs 30/unit when they are already thinking Rs 7/unit is an expensive price to pay. Government must believe in the line “with poverty line of 30.9% (2001), Nepal is poor but its people are still rich”. With every engineers and technician stating the approach towards thermal plant isn’t feasible, it would still be wrong to say the government is deaf if it don’t take the advice. Because it’s not deaf but dead sleeping as it has been for the past few years. I am sorry to say though being the student of engineering I can’t forecast how long would it be sleeping. ;)
The government is planning to keep the thermal plant just as an alternative or more like a supplement which would be used for temporary period of time. But it’s found to be easier and economical to import electricity from India. Also it would take more than a year to install and start generating electricity from thermal plant while importing could just be done in couple of months. So why not go for the option two? Is it because the government is too much embarrassed to ask India just like me feeling difficult to ask question in the class with a thought what lecturer might think about me when every other student have understood? I do dare to ask question sometimes which makes me better than government. Hehe. Yes I am because at least I do wake up before 8am because I don’t want to be late for my class unlike government which is dead asleep.

Growing urbanization in the city, population growth, unhampered and poorly planned land development and insufficient coordination among government agencies as major causes of environmental deterioration as stated in the report presented by Kathmandu Valley Environmental Outlook released 25 January 2007 during the 10th Governing Council Meeting and Silver Jubilee of the South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP). The main problem of KTM valley is the rapid urban growth, haphazard development, lack of access, traffic congestion, and deficiency of infrastructure and general lack of planning. The environment problem in Kathmandu valley is seen in all physical landscape and urban living: Land, water, air, noise. These problems are not only mutually exclusive but also combine together to give even worst effect on negative impact on environment and quality of life.
Environmental challenges and their causes in KTM valley and Nepal as a whole:
Solid waste and wastewater management are mentioned as two of the most critical environmental problems facing the Valley. "Managing solid waste and wastewater in Kathmandu has become a daunting task as urban areas have grown haphazardly without provisions or plans for appropriate infrastructure and services in these sectors," the by Kathmandu Valley Environmental Outlook report states. Other environmental problems highlighted include poor air quality and traffic management, unplanned settlement, degradation of water resources, and weak disaster preparedness. The environmental problem can be listed as below
: Land Pollution:
The main reason for the Land pollution in the KTM valley is due to the lack of solid waste management. The land pollution can be seen in the valley from the evident in the heaps of uncollected solid waste, illegal dump sites, open landfills, and exposed human and animal excreta in the streets. The most common sight in the KTM valley is the open latrines. Even though some of the business groups have tried to dispose their wastage through organized group the absence of proper landfill facilities, the debris has always created a problem for the proper disposal of wastes and which are ultimately end up on land or in water sources like river and ponds.
Water Pollution:
Surface water in KTM valley is severely polluted by the industrial effluence, waste dumping and the discharge of untreated sewage for residents. It is worth to be noted here that the small and mini scaled industries produce more waste than the large scaled industries in compared to the waste created per unit. Lack of proper sanitation and drainage in urban and rural areas has also resulted in dumping of sewage and garbage into the rivers. In most cases, the drainage system, which was designed for storm water only, is being used as a sewer; and the sewage directly flows into the river without any treatment.
The seepage from the septic tanks contaminated ground water in most of the urban areas. The fact tells that virtually all the Kathmandu homeowners build private septic tanks in their generally tiny land plots- often covering just 60 square meters- without sufficient room for soak pits. The still toxic semi- treated effluent from the tank cannot find adequate area for dissipation and concentrates in the residential yards.
Similarly the water provided to the people through the supply pipes are itself not good for health. Primarily the intake storage itself is contaminated and secondly the intermitted supply through the pipe creates suction inside the pipe creating the possibility for the underground and the leaked sewage get mixed into the supplied water wherever possible. Empirical studies of drinking water throughout Nepal have found that the fecal coliform contamination in the water consistently exceeds WHO guidelines for water considered fit for human consumption. According to the same study, the laboratory analysis of tap water from representative locations of the KTM urban area disclosed that almost 90% of the sample was importable.
Air Pollution:
Air pollution is becoming a significant problem in urban areas in Nepal, particularly in the bigger cities. Kathmandu Valley is particularly vulnerable to air pollution because of its bowl-shaped topography which restricts air movement.
Rapid urbanization, poor transport management and maintenance is leading to deteriorating air quality in the Kathmandu Valley, where population more than doubled between 1995-96 and 2003-2004, the report Kathmandu Valley Environmental Outlook said. Vehicular emissions were cited as a primary cause. According to the report, exhaust fumes increased by four times between 1993 and 2001 and PM10 concentration tripled over the past decade. Around 1,600 premature deaths yearly are attributed to poor air quality and health costs reached 210 million rupees (close to US$3 million) in 1990. Availability of agricultural land is also being hampered by increasing urbanization, the report said. Between 1984 and 2000, agricultural land in the valley decreased from 62% to 42%. "If this trend continues, by 2025 there will be no agricultural fields left in this once fertile valley," the report says.
Noise Pollution:
Outdated vehicular engines, increased air traffic at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) and the siting of industries near residential premises are fast turning noise pollution into a major problem in urban Kathmandu. Weak transportation planning and virtual lack of traffic discipline on the apart of the drivers result in near continuous sounding of horns in the streets of Kathmandu.
There are many reasons for the growth of noise pollution from aircraft in KTM valley. Firstly TIA is located in close proximity to the centers of population. Secondly there is the rapid grow in air crafts and thirdly the physiographic configuration of the valley limits choice of flight paths for the air crafts. Outgoing jet planes must circle mountains of KTM valley. Incoming jet planes also circle the valley before landing.
While the growth in trade and tourism has created jobs and improved living standards, development in the last 30 years has created several physical, social, and environmental problems in Kathmandu. The fragile ecosystem is affected severely by uncurbed building and incompatible economic activities.
"Institutional weaknesses in managing urban development have resulted in haphazard growth, manifested in unplanned settlements, increase in vehicular emissions, polluting industries in or near urban areas, traffic congestion, and poor waste management. Kathmandu will continue to grow in future and, if rational planning and development strategies are not formulated, its growth will become a nightmare in the environmental sense," the report adds.
Deficiencies:
None of the big parties who fought the last general elections made environment an explicit agenda and those who did didn’t stand on what they said about launching the programmes like providing access to clean drinking water, and improving health standard. Environmental issues have not been treated as a separate package.
The major handicap with Nepal in environmental protection is that it has very weak institutional setup and therefore monitoring of environmental impacts and enforcement of regulations are nowhere to be seen. Worse, environmental rules, regulations, standards are in the initial state of formulation and enforcement. The only standards that are in practice for some years are vehicular emission standards. But monitoring of vehicles emissions is so weak that such provision has not stopped polluting vehicles yet.

Recommendations
Improved planning and zoning, land pooling, better solid waste management, rainwater harvesting, a variety of infrastructural and technical measures and vastly improved coordination and enforcement can be some of the meditative measure that can be applied to control the growing environmental problem of KTM and Nepal as a whole. Community mobilization was also cited as critical to achieving these goals, particularly in an area that is prone to natural disasters.
Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is committed to address the mounting challenges of urbanization; its impact on the environment, society and economy and take a leading role in promoting environmental stewardship building mutual support and cooperation with cities in Asia Pacific region. As concrete demonstration of this commitment, by the year 2010, KMC will:
(1) Improve transportation and waste collection system;
(2) Select and construct more transfer stations and landfill site;
(3) Promote public participation and behavioral change by establishing more nature clubs, training programs and regular integrations with locals;
(4) Conduct media campaign for waste segregation at source
(5) Lobby tax exception for material recycling;
(6) Manage and implement community-based clean up programs such as street clean-up, community parks, historical places and temples and river clean up programs;
(7) Promote household composting programs by providing compost bins and bags at 45% subsidy rate;
(8) Co-operate with central government to precede establishment of long-term landfill site;
(9) Expand more community-based recycling center and medium scale vermi-composting;
(10) Promote biogas technology from vegetable waste and night soil waste;
(11) Mobilize school children and local communities for environmental activities;
(12) Provide training and assistance to community groups interested in environmental protection;
(13) Mobilize youth city volunteers as a linkage between KMC and citizens in environmental campaign;
(14) Assist locals in marketing recycled products and provide a forum for recycling industries to display a raising of public awareness programs through mass media such as message board, exhibition, metro FM and national televising to promote their products;
(15) Implement Kathmandu Metropolitan City's (KMC) Public-Private-Partnership guidelines;
(16) Prepare the Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) Bi-laws in partnership with UN-Habitat and a local NGO;
(17) Enforce sanitation bi-laws.
(Collected from http://kitakyushu.iges.or.jp/cities/cities/kathmandu.html)
If the above plans made by KMC are met on time, there would be no doubt that the environmental pollution will not only be decreased but also removed to a greater extend.