Several blind women have fallen prey to sexual assaulters in Bajhang but the families’ apathy and society’s behaviour towards sexual assault victims have kept many of them from claiming justice.

Khaptad National Park has restricted bamboo cutting to once a year, leading to a shortage of raw material for weavers.

The district was disconnected from the national road network for about a month in October last year as the floods and landslides severely damaged Jaya Prithvi Highway.

Lack of detailed study in Muktikot, other villages worsens situation when the actual toll of deprivation is unknown.

As the villages have no transportation services, most of the beneficiaries have to walk quite a distance to receive the social security allowance from the designated banks.

Mothers in Muktikot suffer from lactation insufficiency for lack of nutritious food and lose their babies either in the womb, at birth or at neonatal and postneonatal stages.

As many as 150 people received a new set of dentures at a health camp organised by the federal health ministry and Bajhang hospital.

Fifty families have been displaced by landslides in Katkhet, Talbada and Maitoli villages of Bajhang.

Floods victims in the district have been seeking rehabilitation in safe locations for the past two decades but no help has been forthcoming, locals say.

Local units in the district have accused the government of failing to collect and report factual data.

First the November floods affected food supply, then came snowfall. Now villagers face a looming shortage of essentials.

Bajhang branch of Hulak Bachat Bank, a financial unit under the Postal Services Department, lured customers especially from low-income groups such as women daily wage workers and the elderly with attractive interest rates only to steal their savings later.

The women of Khori spearheaded a movement wherein development projects took off and social evils slowly disappeared with the men looking in from the periphery.

People complain of discrepancies in beneficiary list prepared by District Administration Office as fake victims lay claim to government grants.

Around 20,000 families are left without safe drinking water, which could lead to outbreak of diseases.