The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has resumed garbage collection after an agreement was reached between the KMC and the workers' unions on Monday.
The agitating KMC employees agreed to start work after their demands for better security and new equipments for transferring waste were addressed.
Photo: Kenji KwokDeputy Prime Minister and Minister for Federal Affairs and Local Development Prakash Man Singh on Sunday, had urged the government, KMC and Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan officials to work towards resolving the issue.
The 11 workers unions of the KMC employees had stopped collecting garbage from Thursday after Sisdole locals torched KMC vehicles worth Rs 40 million and manhandled workers at Okharpauwa landfill site.
Irate locals had set fire to excavators, dozers and loaders belonging to KMC after a truck, owned by a private company used for transferring garbage crushed four-year-old Rijan Balami to death on Wednesday.
The employees had called an indefinite strike accusing the government of not proving adequate security to the staff and the vehicles ferrying waste.
Following the strike garbage in Kathmandu and Lalitpur remained uncollected for four days. Around 600 tons of garbage is disposed at the landfill site everyday.