Floods triggered by heavy rains in the third week of October last year breached the embankment along Karnali River and inundated several settlements.

Paddy procurement by the state-owned food supplier in Parsa and Kailali has either been cancelled or postponed due to poor quality of crop.

They say the holdup is messing up their crop plans, and they need the money to buy fertiliser and seeds for their winter crops.

More than a thousand people have been displaced and several have gone missing with a few reported deaths.

Several settlements along the Karnali river are at risk of inundation in the absence of an embankment.

Many critically ill Covid-19 patients have to seek treatment outside Tikapur since the district hospital has not been able to run its ventilator service for a lack of medical staff.

Around 10 seriously ill Covid-19 patients have been visiting the hospital on a daily basis in the past few weeks.

The dialogue takes place two days after the home minister met the agitating group whose demands include the release of jailed lawmaker Resham Chaudhary.

The mob set fire to a traffic post at Lamki Chowk and pelted stones at the area police office, said police.

With natural lakes in Kailali drying up, authorities are making efforts to turn Ghodaghodi wetland area into one of the main habitats of migratory as well as domestic birds.

Thirteen border pillars and more than 100 subsidiary pillars have already been lost to the Mohana and Karnali.

A local youth club has been protesting against Bohara after the latter started constructing a concrete house on the forest land.

Committee members are responsible for evaluating projects but they don’t have the necessary skills.

Tikapur municipality provides training to target groups, but lack of monitoring, among other factors, mars its output.

Since federalism came in place, the local unit has placed a lot of emphasis on building concrete settlements, and little on keeping arable land intact--changing the face of Tikapur.