Lack of appropriate slaughtering facilities, techniques and adequate waste water collection and disposal, sanitation conditions are serious for public health and environmental quality of the urban areas.

Traditionally in Nepal, animals are slaughtered in open and near river banks. Absence of designated slaughter area and waste water directly sent into rivers are contributing to environmental and river pollution. Meat products coming from such conditions are often inferior, which may be detrimental to human health.

Hyumat Tole is located in Ward 12 of Kathmandu Municipality. Hyumat Meat Vendors' Committee, butcher communities engaged in animal slaughtering in the Hyumat Tole have been slaughtering animals on the banks of Bishnumati River with waste directly flowing into the river for a long time. The area and the river were clean when very few buffaloes were slaughtered daily. The river was even the source of drinking water for people living in the surrounding areas. But with increase in population and number of animals being slaughtered, the surrounding area and the river is in unbearable condition.

Therefore, Hygienic slaughter shed at Hyumat Tole is being constructed for improvement in the surrounding area and working condition in the slaughter houses and for uncontaminated meat production. Hyumat Meat Vendors' Committee and Centre for Integrated Urban Development is constructing the facility with the support from Kathmandu Municipality, UN Habitat, WaterAid and PPPUE under public private partnership arrangement.

Slaughter area before the project

The slaughter shed is designed with ample water supply for cleaning, floor and walls surface that can be easily cleaned, sufficient floor space for each animal, good drainage system and hygienic working conditions. There is space for 14 buffaloes to be slaughtered at a time in the shed. A Biogas plant has also been installed in the area which would use the waste to produce gas for lightning and cooking purpose.

Butchers would bring the animals (about 30 buffalos daily) to be slaughtered to the facility and pay a slaughtering fee as prescribed by the committee. Hyumat Meat Vendors' Committee will be responsible for the operation and management of the facility. Income generated from slaughtering fee and sale of by-products like bones will sustain the project.

Biogas plant under construction

Project Contribution
•    Employment to five butchers
•    Designated slaughter area
•    Improvement in surrounding environment
•    hygienic working conditions
•    uncontaminated meat production
•    Biogas plant from waste for lighting purpose