Mr. Puspa Raj Bhattarai

Mr. Puspa Raj Bhattarai is currently the joint secretary of PEEDA. He holds a Masters’s degree in Anthropology and Sociology from Patan Multiple College having been involved in nature conservation and understanding indigenous knowledge for the last 18 years. Currently, he is working at Nepal Rural Development Centre (NRDC) as a 3R expert. There he organizes and implements the public awareness campaign for important solid wastage management, encourages household-level segregation of wastage and composting, ensures that community base activities are integrated into the overall solid wastage management practices, and coordinates with community awareness mobilization, people’s participation, and capacity building activities as related to solid wastage management. As well as he is also working at Sugam Engineering and Services Pvt. Ltd. As a sales director, he has worked as a Project Coordinator at Hulas Steel Industries Limited for around 12 years and as a Finance Director at Ram Metal Workshop and Steelmate Engineering Industries Pvt. Ltd for the last 10 years. He has worked in many organizations such as B.K. Agrawal & Co., Music Nepal Pvt. Ltd., Nepal Times Daily News Paper in different roles.