The human chain badged the 100th Bagmati Clean Up Campaign

"We would keep the Bagmati clean,”

 “We would not dump garbage in the Bagmati” 

“We would not allow anyone to defile the Bagmati”

The slogans reverberated at the 100th Bagmati Clean Up Campaign all over banks of Bagmati river this saturday. The day is marked by forming human chain along 28^th Km stretch of the river from Gokarna to Chovar where volunteers stood in long human chain to show their unity to improve the river environment. The human Chain along river  symbolically represents prohibiting polluters from reaching the river.

Aerial view of  the human chain at the 100th Bagmati Clean Up Campaign

The aerial view of Human Chain at Sundarijal

Local Newari women in Traditional dresses showing their solidarity to the Cleaning Campaign at Gusingal

Over 2,20,000 people from all walks of life including marked politicians, bureaucrats, artists, scholars, students, civilians and business community took part in the human chain to show their solidarity to preserve the degraded river.They sang the National Anthem and took oath to keep the river clean.

Bankers at the campaign( Cresit: LP. Bhanu Sharma)

Bagmati Clean Up Campaign has been a unique Clean Up drive with massive public involvement. Participation of volunteers from all backgrounds has made the campaign socio-environmental cause to preserve the glorious river. 

The government and organisers have made special transportation arrangements for people willing to participate in the event from 5:30am-7am. The buses with the banner reading ‘Bagmati Cleaning Mega Campaign (100th Week)’ picked up those who want to participate in the cleaning from Kalanki, Ekantakuna, Satdobato, Lagankhel, Ratna Park, Swoyambhu, Balaju, Gongabu, Narayan Gopal Chowk, Surya Binayak, Duwakot, Sankhu and dropped them near the banks of the holy river in Balkhu, Tripureshwor/Thapathali, Shantinagar/Tilganga, Gaurighat/Narayantar, Attarkhel/Gokarna and Sundarijal.

The participating mob before UN park at Thapathali

Although the campaign is at morning time, excitement could be felt in the volunteers with the sincerity in the dresses, the music and the hospitality. Each volunteers could be seen smiling and welcoming each other to join the chain.The Love for river could be seen in the volunteers. 

Traditional Newari Music to hearten the Campaign at Teku

Group Photoes: Proud moments  at 100th Bagmati Clean Up Campaign

Drinking Water  for the volunteers

Not only the participating volunteers, the clean up mob attracted interests of those who have indeed significant roles to reduce the pollutant loads at the lap of the Bagmati. A women has undeniable roles in managing shaping and organizing a family. Since the major source of pollutant of the Bagmati river is the household wastes, inspiring women to manage household wastes by reduce, reuse and recycle can help reduce the wastes at the source and hence meet the campaign motive.

Local women watching the clean up mob at Gusingal

The Historic clean Up Drive will be at new episode at the 101th clean up drive next week!

JAY BAGMATI!!

99th Bagmati Clean Up Campaign

The 99th Bagmati Clean Up Campaign was observed at Sundarighat, Kirtipur. The campaign was accomplished in active involvement of over 800 volunteers and 45 metric tonnes of solid scarps was collected at the event.

The Cleaning mob at 99th Bagmati Clean Up Camapign

Women picking scarps at 99th Clean Up Campaign

Sundarighat lies after the confluence of Balkhu river in Bgmati river. The station is also known as local dumping site of Kirtipur and local waste from Kirtipur area was dumped in the area. After few regular weeks of the campaign in the place, the river bosom at this stretch is visually clean, with no scarps and rotten rags around. This has made the river reach aesthetically better.

 a) Before the campaign                                                               b) After the campaign
Sundarighat

The 99th BCCampaign was accomplished in active involvement of Scholars, bureaucrats, Civil servants, Civil Society, Students and motivated individuals. Some organisations have prepared flex printed charts with which volunyteers visit regularly. The banners hunged on nearby walls. 

Banners of participating organisatons

Scholars and bureaucrats could be seen in the place. Humphrey Fellows were seen posing for photographs with their banners. The Humphrey Fellowship is provided by United States Education Foundation.

Members of Nepal Association of Humphrey Fellows at Bagmati Clean Up Campaign

Volunters from Radhaswati Satsang Byas supplemented the campaign offering Tea and Biscuits to participants in the campaign. Around 800 cups of tea was offered. The organisation has been feeding the volunteers since few weeks on a regular basis. Volunteers sipped tea and biscuits after the campaign.

Volunteers from Radhaswati satsang Byas Nepal preparing for  snacks for volunteers in Bagmati Clean Up Campaign

Alike in previous campaigns, volunteers from Mahendra Narayan Nidhi Memorial Hospital were present for medical Support. They help volunteers with minor cuts and bruises and if in case of major bruise, they carry then to hospial for further treatment.

The medical team at 99th Bagmati Clean Up Camapaign

Jeevan Vigyan is one of the founder organisations of the campaign. The organisation has important role to help Bagmati Clean Up Camapign come to this day. The 99th Bagmati Clean Up Campaign was also watered by the organisation. Volunteers refreshed thirsty participants by offering water.

Volunteers from Jeevan Bigyan offering water to campaigners at Bagmati Clean Up Camapign

Volunteers from Jeevan Bigyan offering water at 99th Bagmati Clean Up Campaign( Photo Source: Nirmala KC)

The 99th Bagmati Clean Up Campaign

The Bagmati Clean Up Campaign has gone on a long way through and the 100th episode is celebration for all those people who want to save the degrading Bagmati River. For the 100th episode, it is estimated that 80,000 participants will be mobilized from headwaters to downstream. The river section has been divided into 7 stretches from Sundarijal to Chovar. Coordinators have been selected for each section. Volunteers can go to any convenient river reach  for helping clean the degraded river. 
The river sections and respective coordinators as shown by HPCIDBC are shown below: 

Stretch	Coordinator
Sundarijal to Gokarna	Ramesh Simkhada and Janardan Khadka
Gokarna- Jambodada	Shree Narayan Gopal Malego
Jambodanda Tilganga- Stretch	Narayan Prasad Regmi
Tilganga- Manohara Dovan Stretch	Shantiram Subedi and Lilamani Poudel
Manohara Dovan	Yet to be confirmed
Thapathali- Balkhu	Yet to be confirmed
Balkhu Chovar strech	Yet to be confirmed

Hoping seeing you all at the campaign

Jay Bagmati