KATHMANDU, June 1: Balendra Shah, the mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), has skipped the meeting of the high-level committee called by the Ministry of Urban Development regarding waste management. Shah did not attend the meeting called by the federal government on Wednesday.
Urban Development Minister Sita Gurung chaired the meeting on waste management held at Singha Durbar, where the mayors of all the municipalities in the valley, including KMC and Lalitpur Metropolitan Municipality (LMC), were invited. LMC Mayor Chiribabu Maharjan attended the meeting. Likewise, mayors and representatives of other municipalities in the valley went to the meeting.
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Meanwhile, KMC Mayor Shah did not participate but sent Basanta Adhikari, the chief administrative officer of the metropolis, to the meeting. According to Adhikari, Mayor Shah could not come to the meeting because his wife was sick.
However, this is not the first time that Shah has been absent from the meeting. Last month, he did not attend the meeting called by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on waste management.
