LALITPUR

Last week i visited Lalitpur.
Location :
It is the beautiful medieval city of art and culture is situated in the southeast part of the magnificent Kathmandu valley which is located between the latitudes 27o 32' 13" and 27o 49' 10" North and longitudes 85o 11' 31" and 85o 31' 38" East. The valley lies at a mean elevation of about 1350 m. above sea level.
The city spread over an area of 15.43 sq.km. and is politically divided into 22 wards. Of the twenty two wards, area wise ward no 15 is the largest with an area of 2.43 sq.km. and with an area of 0.09 sq.km ward no 21 is the smallest.
In south there is Saibu VDC, Sunakothi VDC and Dhapakhel VDC,in north there is

Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC),in west there is Kirtipur Municipality and in east there is

Imadol VDC and Harisiddhi VDC.

 

 Environmental Situation:

 

It's environmental situation is  bad. Nearly 75 tons of solid waste is generated daily in

Lalitpur.about 70% is kitchen waste that is organic in nature, and the combustible and reusable materials like paper, wood, leaves, and textiles constitute nearly 13 %. The increasing trend of use of plastics in the city is evident by its portion (11.4%) in the total household waste.
Similarly, the composition of waste generated from various sources in the city is shown in Table 4.8. Hotels and restaurant waste generates mainly organic waste from kitchen (77%), paper (21%) and plastics (13%). Offices produce, not surprising more papers (73%) than organic (0%) and plastic (18%) waste.

Prevention measures:

*The wastes from homes,industries and others should be less.

*Different awareness program should be held.

*Government should provide the big container in different places.

* Reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and give more
emphasis on organic fertilizers and pesticides.
*.Afforestation,watershed management and land use plannings help to
conserve environment.
*Practise reduce,reuse and recycling methods.