The jeep was carrying a wedding party from Banke when it veered off the road and fell down a cliff near Mulpani of Kapurkot Rural Municipality at around 2am.

Forgoing regular tests during pregnancy and delays in hospitalising pregnant women contribute to mortality.

Government health facilities at Chhatreshwori Rural Municipality in Salyan have run out of essential medicines, forcing locals to seek treatment elsewhere.

Risk aggravated by haphazard road construction, claims Disaster Management Committee chief.

Some villagers say they’d rather endure the pain and resort to traditional healing methods than walk for hours to get medical treatment.

Around 40 percent of the people in the district have no access to clean water.

Many local units have cited a lack of suitable land plots and delay in preparation of detailed project reports behind the project’s inability to take off.

Around 10,000 households in the district do not have access to water supply, according to the Water Supply, Irrigation and Energy Development Office.

Farmers faced a pest problem as the winter was slightly warmer this year, experts say.

Agri-technicians estimate that maize grown on 30 hectares of land is infested.

While the budget allocated to them is being misused, most farmers in the district remain unaware of the grants meant for them.

According to police data, road accidents in the district have risen by three-fold in three years.

The campaign is being launched in view of the increasing incidents of child marriage across the district.

Commercial agriculture has allowed farmers in the conflict-hit village to rebuild their lives.

Teachers at Tribhuvan Jana Secondary School in Salyan say that they lack resources to run separate classes for the deaf students.