Health offices in the municipality are facing a shortage of medicines since the ones purchased some three months ago through a tender process did not meet the WHO standard.

State-owned Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) has started producing rice to supply to remote mountain districts at fair prices following arbitrary price increases by rice traders and mills.

A multi-fuel power plant installed at Tankisinwari, Morang, has been gathering dust for the last two years for want of maintenance. As a result, more than 500 industries in the Sunsari-Morang industrial zone have been dealing with load-shedding.