Srijana Singh is a mayoral candidate for the Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

Singh, a candidate from the Nepali Congress, started her politics as a student leader of the Nepal Student Union, a student wing of Nepali Congress.

She is the wife of Prakash Man Singh, a prominent Congress leader and a son of political stalwart Ganesh Man Singh.

Here are some of the commitments made by Singh in her election manifesto:

1.     To make Kathmandu corruption-free city

2.     To improve the quality of education

3.     To make Kathmandu, a zero waste metropolitan city

4.     To install CCTV cameras in public vehicles to ensure women’s safety

5.     To connect culture, jatras, traditional musical instruments and language among others with tourism

6.     To work unwaveringly for the long-term development of Kathmandu by protecting and promoting the guthi system

7.     To protect daily-wage female workers and working mothers.

8.     To improve pedestrian infrastructure and pedestrianisation of city core areas

9.     To maintain austerity and good governance in the city

10. To protect and expand open areas, parks, ponds and falcha among others