Meat from dead animals, fetid slaughter houses rampant

 Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), which is responsible to regulate meat shops and slaughter houses in metropolis, said that only very few meat traders have taken approval to run such businesses. "Meat shops are ubiquitous in the city, but only five to six shops have registered themselves at our office," said Rajuya Prakash Pradhananga, chief of KMC's health department. He conceded that KMC's failure to regulate the meat market in the metropolis has left consumers' health at risk. Despite the presence of Animal Slaughterhouse and Meat Inspection Act, 1999, concerned agencies have not yet bothered to enforce it.