Vehicles, Pollution and Kathmandu: A common man prospective

Kathmandu is a hub for all kind of affairs: political, education and tourism. It is one and only a metro city in Nepal. People come to this city for the purpose of getting education as most of the college are catered here. they come to this city to get access to government as the most of government services are centered here.The city is being polluted day by day the population is getting more and more and  number of vehicles is increasing. In some aspect it is due to a private vehicles that individual uses for their transportation and the other side, the expansion of water supply pipe by Melamchi Water Project.

 Figure: Air pollution in Kathmandu (source: Kathmandupost.com)

First, the use of private vehicles increases traffic on the road. It takes more time to reach destination due to the loss of time in traffic. We couldn't reach on time to any place and loss most important business meeting or similar things. More people need more vehicles as they are using it for their own private purpose, the number of vehicles increases and it definitely increase the pollution. The best way of reducing pollution is to make a policy that demotivates the use of private vehicles and promotes  public transportation such as bus, metro train or railways.

Secondly, Not only the vehicles are making Kathmandu polluted, the extension of water supply pipeline under the new water supply project inside the Kathmandu valley called Melamchi Water Supply project is causing worst environment in this city. The day to day road digging and expanding under-ground pipeline creates a lot of dust particles and all air in Kathmandu now days is mixed of this dust. Everyone is feeling very uncomfortable in breathing due to this toxic dust contained air. As a result, people are started protesting against this action and demanding the on time management of dust produced during the construction of underground water supply pipelines.

In conclusion, it can be said that we must take care of environment whenever we are lunching any development related project. It is because the most development related project impacts the environment  and creates pollution. we should be much aware that such development project create minimum hazard to environment. The other side to prevent air pollution is to boost good traffic management strategy and reduce the use of private vehicles. In this regards, the government agency should be more focused to create a atomsphere that everyone could use public vehicles for their daily life activities.