Kathmandu. Nepal Life Insurance Company Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate with Round Table Nepal under the Project Care campaign to collect garbage accumulated on Mount Everest. The agreement was signed by the company’s CEO Praveen Raman Parajuli and the Chairman of Round Table Nepal Prabhesh Agrawal during a special ceremony organized at Global College in Kathmandu.
The program was inaugurated by lighting a lamp in the Panasam by the company’s CEO Praveen Raman Parajuli, Deputy CEO Amit Kumar Kayal, Chairman of Round Table Nepal Prabhesh Agrawal, outgoing Chairman Nitesh Kumar Agrawal and representative of the Everest Pollution Control Committee, which is the technical partner of this project, Tshiring Sherpa.
Nepal Life has collaborated with Round Table Nepal and its technical partner, the Everest Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), to conduct the Everest Cleanup Campaign as part of its corporate social responsibility, the CEO of the company said. Officer Parajuli said. Chief Executive Officer Parajuli said that since Mount Everest is a jewel not only of Nepal but also of the world, it is necessary to protect it.
Round Table Nepal Chairman Prabhesh Agrawal said that the target is to collect 5,000 kg of garbage in the Everest region this time and a plan has been made to manage 25,000 kg of garbage in the coming days. He also stated that Round Table Nepal has been working in the fields of education, health and environment and expressed his commitment to continue this campaign.
Round Table Nepal’s current chairman Nitesh Kumar Agrawal said that since Mount Everest is a world attraction, the number of climbers has been increasing rapidly. He expressed his confidence that this campaign will bring a big change, saying that although the Nepalese government and the international community have continued their cleaning efforts, they have not been effective. During this, he said that the decomposing waste will be taken below the base camp and the non-decomposing waste will be brought to Kathmandu in 30-kilogram bags.
Tshering Sherpa, a representative of the Everest Pollution Control Committee, said that the start of this campaign, although late, is positive. Noting that negative news about the garbage on Everest has started coming in the international media, he said that this campaign will make a significant contribution to solving the problem. He said that even though the Nepal government has made a rule that every climber going above the base camp must bring at least 1 kilogram of garbage, this problem has not been completely solved.
