By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Jan. 27: Pedestrians will soon feel a sigh of relief while strolling around Pashupatinath temple as the area will be free from makeshift shops.
The Pashupatinath Area Development Trust is gearing to remove all the makeshift shops in the area including the flowers shops from either side of the road to the World Heritage Site.
Issuing a seven-day public notice thrice, the Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) has asked the concerned parties to remove all the illegally built temporary huts, flower shops and gift shops operating at the road sides, open ground, Kailash hill, Gorakhanath area, Ban Ganesh, Panchadewal Old House and Bhakundol area. A campaign to make this area free from obstructive stalls will begin once the deadline of the notice expires.
The roadside vendors will be removed under the joint initiative of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, District Administrative Office, Nepal Police and PADT if they do not comply with the notice, according to the PADT.
The flower shops here have remained completely unmanaged. They have been creating obstructions to the devotees visiting the Pashupatinath temple and even to the passing emergency vehicles.
The unmanaged shops and temporary huts everywhere give an ugly look to the Pashupati area and leave bad impression on the visitors, tourists as they face obstructions while passing by the roads leading to the famous Shiva temple.
Around 200 such shops and huts are now in operation at the Pashupati area.
Under the campaign all congested shops will be removed. The mission of PADT is to totally free the area from these stalls, said an official of the PADT.
The concerned stall owners have been notified to shift from the area. Some stall owners have started vacating their shops after issuance of the public notice.
Meanwhile, our Palpa correspondent adds: Tansen Municipality has been paving granite on the roads of Tansen in order to amplify the beauty of Palpa’s district headquarters. Granites have been laid from Bhagwati Temple to Hulak Chowk of Tansen under the first phase of the work.
“The granites are paved only after stone soling the bottom-most layer of the road and plastering it,” said Ashok Kumar Shahi, Mayor of Tansen Municpality. “The granites were paved from Sitalpati to Bhagwati Temple before.”
Now, we are paving granite from Hulak Chowk to Sitalpati, he added.
Shahi said that the beautification would be an ‘add-on’ to the proper management of the road. The municipality had invited a bid a year ago for laying marble on over 500 metres long road.
Durga Bahadur Thapa, Information Officer of the Municipality, said that the contract of paving granite was awarded to CM Shivalaya JV of Baneshwor, Kathmandu at Rs. 18,311,000.
According to the agreement, the company had to lay 800 square metres of granite, he added. The municipality said that roads of Tansen would look clean and beautiful after the completion of the work.
The number of tourists visiting Tansen would also increase once the road beautification work completes, the municipality said.
The municipality said that the work of laying granite would finish soon.