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Kathmandu : The Kathmandu Valley Water Supply Management Board (KVWSMB) is going to regulate Fecal Sludge desludging and transporting private service providers. Executive Director of KVWSMB Dr. Sanjeev Bickram Rana said that the regulation is being prepared to address the existing problems faced by the private service providers due to lack of regulatory body and fecal sludge disposal site.
Dr. Rana informed that once the tendering process for wastewater treatment plants proceeds, the KVWSMB Regulation will be sent to the Council of Ministers for amendments and then the regulatory work will commence. “After the amendment of the Regulation, fecal sludge desludging and transporting private service providers will be licensed along with construction of fecal sludge disposal site.
There is the problem of where to get the license and where to dispose the fecal sludge. Kathmandu Valley Board has already started to work to address both these problems,” Dr. Rana added. “We are also constructing treatment plants for this. We are preparing to get the rights of a regulatory body. It might take about three months to complete the process and issue the license,” Dr. Rana said.
During the television program ‘Talk of the Town’, where Joint Secretary of Ministry of Water Supply Er. Tiresh Prasad Khatri, Executive Director of KVWSMB Dr. Sanjeev Bickram Rana and Managing Director of ShahariSafai Sewa Pvt. Ltd. Pradeep Dhungana resided as the key speakers, Mr. Dhungana said that they are not able to do the business openly due to lack of licensing system for the business and requested relevant authorities to take the actions as soon as possible to solve the existing problems faced by the service providers.
Drawing the attention on recent case of Lalitpur Metropolitan City charging the fine of NRs. 50,000 to service provider, Mr. Dhungana requested for implementing fine system only after the management of proposal disposal site.
Recently, Kathmandu Metropolitan City has also charged the fine of NRs. 50,000 for disposing the fecal sludge into the sewer network.
A preliminary study shows that about 60 private operators are involved in septic tank cleaning business. Since this business could not be legalized, the private operators have not been able to organize yet.
Besides the fecal sludge treatment plant at Lubhu with limited capacity, there are no other treatment plants in Kathmandu Valley. “Fecal sludge treatment plants are being constructed at wastewater treatment plant sites in Dhobighat and Kodku,” Dr. Sanjeev Bickram Rana informed during the Talk Program.
