Demand to make Thamel a special tourist town

KATHMANDU, May 03:Thamel, the primary tourist sector of the federal capital Kathmandu, has been demanded to make as a special tourist city. In the public hearing organized by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City-26 and the annual plan formulation program for the year 2080/81, it was requested to make Thamel, which is in the 26th ward of the Metropolitan City, a special tourist town.

Bhabiswor Sharma, Chairman of Thamel Tourism Development Council, stated during the program that Thamel, which is well-known in the worldwide community, should be designated as a unique tourist town. "If Kathmandu Metropolitan City and Thamel could be declared a special tourist city, the reputation of Kathmandu Metropolitan City and Thamel could have increased at the international level," he added.

According to Chairman Sharma, around 10,000 enterprises operate in the Thamel region, employing 50,000 people directly. He stated that the Thamel area's inner streets should be paved, and that a ward should be established to install street lighting and CCTV cameras.

In the public program, the Thamel Tourism Development Council has also demanded that a tourism information center should be established, the entrance to Thamel should be opened soon, public toilets should be built inside Thamel, and the heritage within Thamel should be painted.

The majority of the program's ward inhabitants demanded that the roads inside the ward be paved swiftly, trash management be completed on time, public property be preserved, and medications be delivered to the ward residents on time.

The president of Khyamraj Tiwari Ward promised that the situation would be resolved quickly, stating that 80 percent of the roads in the ward had been damaged as a result of the development of the pipeline for the Melamchi water supply project and the undergrounding of electric cables.

He stated that before the end of the year, all roads inside the ward will be paved, and the ward will have street lights, CCTV cameras, and security sirens.