Pollution mask, Kathmandu

                                                               Pollution Mask

Capital of Nepal, the only metropolitan city Kathmandu is also the headquarter of SAARC. With the population of 975,453+, including the most intelligent and economically rich citizens of the country it has been ranked as the third most polluted city in the world.

Kathmandu is the gateway to tourism in Nepal. It is also the hub of the COUNTRY'S ECONOMY. It has the most advanced infrastructure of any urban area in Nepal, and its economy is focused on tourism, which accounted for 3.8% of Nepal's GDP in 1995/96. Tourism in Kathmandu declined thereafter during a period of political unrest, but since then it has improved a lot. In 2013, Kathmandu was ranked third among the top 10 travel destinations on the rise in the world, and ranked first in Asia. And now it has been ranked as one of the most polluted cities in the world.

The city of Kathmandu is named after Kasthamandap temple, that stood in Durbar square. In Sanskrit, kastha means "wood" and Mandap means "covered shelter". Many people often described it as ' The city of woods". However in recent times wooden houses has been undertaken by concrete buildings and of course garbage all around. Well  it wont be wrong to say, it is on its way to be named as "The city of pollution". During medieval times, the city was sometimes called  Kantipur. This name is derived from two Sanskrit words - kanti and pur. "Kanti" is one of the names of the Goddess Laxmi, ( goddess of wealth) and "pur" means place.  The place where goddess Laxmi dwells. But a very popular saying in Hindu says that goddess Laxmi loves and dwells in clean place, she hates dirt and pollution. This can be assumed as a reason why Nepal cannot rise economically since it is still unable to utilize its resources including the garbage.

Sometimes we don't need words cause the pictures speak itself. Yes of course we need to explain a little bit cause most of them understand in different way. These pics show how caring and health conscious people of Kathmandu are. Not all of them but some. Cause most of them are so called habituated of what they smell every single day.

These health conscious people are definitely intelligent being who knows how to wear pollution mask, to protect themselves from pollution but do they really know how to get rid of the problem created by pollution?  do they know how dangerous pollution can be? Do they even know what pollution is?

 If they knew all these, trust me there would be no pollution in Kathmandu, and Kathmandu would never be ranked as world's third most polluted city. It is them who made the city polluted and it is them who can and must clean and make the city pollution free. God is busy in heaven lets not disturb him or her. It's they including all Nepalese who needs to take the responsibility.