Preservation, construction of public spaces in Kathmandu Valley stressed

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">Stakeholders &nbsp;have demanded the earliest implementation of the government's programme for the current fiscal year to allocate ten public spaces in the Kathmandu Valley and one space in each constituency.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>They raised their concern over the condition of available public spaces in the Valley being used as dumping sites or parking lots by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC).</p><p><br></p><p>Speakers at a programme organized on preservation of public spaces by Primary Health Care Centre here today also underscored preservation of such spaces for the effective disaster management.</p><p><br></p><p>The municipal new building code dictates that at least five percent spaces of the total land should be left unused while constructing a house or any other structures within the KMC.</p><p><br></p><p>Presenting a working paper, Suman Maharjan expressed his dismay over the increasing lack of public spaces in the Kathmandu Valley.</p><p><br></p><p>Likewise, other participants as Sachin Maharjan and Prakash Maharjan said that many vegetable bazaars in the Valley were placed haphazardly.</p>