Nepalunites is organizing another campaign, ‘Mero Desh, Mero Dayitwa’ to clean up Kalmochan temple in Thapathali. Nepalunites is an inclusive activist organization of Nepalese citizens from all walks of life that first started off as a movement towards the delay of the constitution writing. Since then, Nepalunites has been functioning via mostly Facebook and also YouTube to locally carry out tasks of national significance. Kalmochan Ghat is a temple next to the religiously pious yet infamously polluted Bagmati River. With the pledge ‘This Saturday we will exhibit one more time that the Nepalis just don’t ask others to perform their duties; as citizens, we perform our duties as well towards our nation’ the members of Nepalunites will be working with the administration, local guthis, local clubs and nagarpalika to clean the place up. The event is set to take place on 20th August 2011 beginning on 1:00 pm. People are invited to come in their casuals with cleaning materials including brooms, buckets, gloves etc. Besides cleaning, there are plans to repaint the walls.
Author: Verse
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Mero Desh Merai Dayitwa Let’s Clean up Kalmochan Temple
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ktmROCKS e-mag
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