The collection and disposal of garbage has been halted since Friday due to the strike by local drivers.

Local drivers resorted to the protest in Sisdol landfill site in Okharpauwa, Nuwakot demanding the change in specific time policy for the garbage carrying vehicles. The drivers have parked their vehicles seeking permission to dump the trash in their favourable time.

Currently, the garbage vehicles can travel to the Sisdol site for dumping the waste from 6am to 2pm on a normal day and from 6am to 12pm during public holidays. They agitating drivers have been demanding that they should be allowed to dump the garbage even after 2 pm.

Around 60 garbage carrying vehicles have been kept at the dumping site, locals said.

A week before Dashain, Okharpauwa locals had obstructed the dumping of waste in Sisdol putting forth various demands including construction of a modern dumping site near Sisdol, and spraying chemicals at the landfill site regularly, among others.