57 public toilets for millions of people in KMC

February 3, 2019 07:30 AM SHUVAM DHUNGANA

KATHMANDU, Feb 3: Kathmandu Metropolitan City is mired in toilet crisis as the capital struggles to accommodate its growing population lured by job opportunities and other facilities. There are only 57 public toilets, more than half of them in need of immediate repair, in KMC which is home to millions of people.
This acute shortage of public toilets can trigger a sanitation disaster that could put thousands of lives at risk, experts have warned.

शौच गर्न सास्ती !

माघ १७, २०७५प्रशान्त माली

काठमाडौँ — शौचालय नभएका होइनन् । राजधानीमा यत्रतत्र छन्, भएर के गर्ने ? भित्र पस्नै नसकिने । कुपन्डोल–त्रिपुरेश्वर–कलंकी राजधानीको व्यस्त सडक हो । झन्डै ५ किमि लामो सडकमा सार्वजनिक शौचालय छैन । ४ वटा पेट्रोल पम्प छन् । कुनैमा पनि उपभोक्तालाई लक्षित गरेर शौचालय व्यवस्थापन गरिएको छैन ।

क्यानडाकी उप राजदूतले गरिन् रत्नपार्कको शौचालयको अवलोकन भ्रमण

१६ माघ २०७५, बुधबार १९:२४
काठमाडौ : नेपालका लागि क्यानडाकी उप राजदूत Soyoung Park ले रत्नपार्क स्थित सार्वजनिक शौचालयको अवलोकन भ्रमण गर्नुभएको छ । उप राजदूत Park ले महिलामैत्री एवं बायोग्यास जडित शौचालयको सबै संरचनाको अवलोकन गर्नुभएको हो । क्यानेडियन राजदुतावासको कार्यालयबाट आएको टोलीलाई एरोसान(AEROSAN) का राष्ट्रिय प्रतिनिधी प्रकाश अमात्यले शौचालयको सबै संरचनाको बर्णन गर्नुभएको थियो ।

Bring toilets at petrol pumps to public use, say stakeholders

Published: January 27, 2019 10:45 am On: Kathmandu | HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE | Kathmandu, January 26

There must be at least a public toilet on the premises of a petrol pump for customers. Many petrol pumps in Kathmandu have public toilets, but these toilets are not open to the public.
Most of the public toilets built on the premises of petrol pumps remain locked and some toilets are not in sorry condition. Most of them do not even have water facility.