The Bagmati cleanup campaign was started in 2070 BS by then chief secretary Leela Mani Paudyal. The Pudasaini Maitri Samaj, Ramro Jorpati Hamro Jorpati and Makalbari Tol Reform Committee had been collecting garbage in the Bagmati River after 39 weeks of the beginning of the greater campaign.
“Fish have started swimming in Bagmati some thirty years after the cleanliness campaign was launched. However, fish and other aquatic animals are not visible in the river down the Pashupatinath Temple as the processed garbage have been mixed in the river down the Pashupati area,” Chairman of Pudasaini Maitri Samaj Uttam Pudasaini said. On Saturday, a total of 14 metric tons of garbage was collected from the river nearby Minbhawan. Former chief secretary Paudyal, Secretary at the Ministry of Urban Development Dipendra Nath Sharma, campaigner Dr Raju Adhikari and security personnel, among others, were present to clean up the river on Saturday.
सफाइ अभियानमा नेपाल प्रहरी, सशस्त्र प्रहरी बल, काठमाडौँ महानगरपालिका, एपेक्स कलेज बानेश्वर, अधिकारसम्पन्न वाग्मती सभ्यता एकीकृत विकास समिति पदाधिकारी, पूर्वपदाधिकारीलगायत सर्वसाधारण जुटेका थिए ।
विश्वका पुरानो सभ्यतामध्ये एक वाग्मती सभ्यतालाई जोगाइराख्न र नदीलाई फोहरमुक्त तुल्याउने अभियानमा केही सातादेखि जापानको ओयामा गाकुइन विविबाट खटिएका छात्रछात्राले नदीभित्रै पसेर डोकाका डोका फोहर सङ्कलन गर्दै आएका छन् । नदी सफा बनाउने अभियानमा सहभागी हुन पाएकामा खुसी व्यक्त गर्दै उनीहरुले नेपालमा रहुन्जेल अभियानमा सहभागिता जनाउने प्रतिबद्धता जनाए ।
