KUKL bears loss worth Rs 200 million due to quake
Kathmandu, May 7, The massive earthquake of April 25 has caused damages worth
Rs 200 million to the properties of the Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanepani Limited
(KUKL), the government water utility body.
According to
KUKL, the quake has completely damaged its four buildings, including Water
Processing System in Pharping, disrupting the daily distribution of some 20
million litres of drinking water.
But the KUKL
expects the resumption of the service by the end of the week, citing that the
maintenance of some 400 wreckage in the pipes and the damaged infrastructures
was at a war footing.
"We have
already obtained permission from the Kathmandu Municipality and the Division of
Roads, we are going to resume the service soon," said the General Manager
of KUKL, Chandra Lal Nakarmi, adding
that the KUKL was lacking adequate laborers to swing into the maintenance of
the damaged physical infrastructures.
GM Nakarmi also
appealed to the public not go by the rumors spread by some rumor-mongers that
the corpse of deceased from the quake were dumped in the pond from which the
KUKL brings in water.
He has also urged
the public to consume the water distributed by the KUKL without any doubt as it
has been distributing water after properly examining it in the lab.
The KUKL has been
distributing the bleaching powder to the tanker entrepreneurs for free since
the quake in view of ensuring the distribution of potable water from the
private sector to the public.