The priests will work with the local government, police, women’s groups, child clubs and students to end child marriage in Rukum (West).

Sisne is one of the remotest corners in the district and the allowance recipients have had to travel for hours just to reach the nearest bank.

Sanibheri Municipality in the district has completed construction of a building at Chhotebagar to run a 15-bed rural municipality level hospital.

The local government has allocated Rs 5 million each to Mahat and Hukam in Rukum (East) to ensure the project comes through.

On August 14, the flooded Thuli Bheri river swept away 12 houses in Mankabagar settlement.

The District Soil Conservation Office had introduced a master plan to conserve the lake some nine years ago but the project never took off.

Pickers have been dying to treatable diseases like flu, diarrhea and altitude sickness for lack of medical attention.

Municipal council meeting of Aathbiskot Municipality has decided not to issue any licence to set up new private schools, and to focus on imparting quality education at the community schools.

Transportation along the Panchase-Patihalna section of the Mid-hill Highway has resumed nearly after three months of obstruction caused by incessant snowfall.

Teaching-learning activities at a basic school in Pelma village of Puthauttarganga Rural Municipalilty-2, Rukum (East), have been greatly affected as the headmaster is out of contact, acting headmaster has disappeared and the school management committee chairman is in jail.

The ongoing dispute regarding the district headquarters of Rukum (East) has been sent to the constitutional bench of the Supreme Court.

Normal life in Rukumkot has been affected due to the prolonged prohibitory order imposed by the District Administration Office (DAO) last week.

Locals of Musikot and surrounding villages are deprived of health services due to the absence of doctors at the District Hospital in Rukum (West).

The District Administration Office, Rukum (East) has imposed a prohibitory order in Rukumkot since Sunday after the protests led by the locals to secure district headquarters’ status turned violent.

Sixty-nine houses were destroyed while 207 other were damaged by natural calamities, mostly landslides, in Rukum (West) during July and August of 2018. As per the report assessed by the local administration, water-induced disasters destroyed infrastructures worth around Rs 301.5 million in the district.