By Karuna Thapa
Kathmandu, March 16
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City’s concrete building was demolished in violation of the
protected site’s regulations in the Hanumandhoka Durbar region, which is on the World
Heritage List.
The construction was observed and demolished by a monitoring committee chaired by Hari
Prabha Khadgi, deputy chief of the metropolis, according to Sandeep Khanal, chairman of the office at Hanumandhoka Durbar Care Center. The Department of Archeology had written to Naut many times, requesting that the building constructed in front of the palace at Basantapur Dabli be removed. The property protection campaign had appealed to the metropolitan’s monitoring committee after the metropolis rejected the department’s contact.
The corporation worked night and day against archeological regulations, according to Ganpati Lal Shrestha, an activist with the Heritage Protection Campaign. Following the monitoring headed by Metropolitan Deputy Chief Shrestha, a meeting of the responsible entities convened in the office of the Director-General of the Department Damodar Gautam resolved to destroy the non-standard constructions. Those constructions were demolished as a result of the ruling, with the assistance of the Metropolitan Police Circle Public Service.
UNESCO and the Kathmandu District Administration Office have also appealed to have the
building demolished. The Kathmandu Metropolitan Corporation’s Hanumandhoka Durbar Conservation Program and all four wards in the Basantapur Durbar region were not informed about the building of structures that did not meet the regulations.
