There is no official record of entries through the other five border points in Darchula.

People living in several villages in Darchula are still dependent on tuins, rudimentary ropeway crossings, to get across Mahakali River.

Sunsera-Mal section of the road was obstructed by landslides in June last year.

The Indian authorities have been building an embankment along the Mahakali river that Nepali side claims to be an international border.

The federal, provincial and local governments claim to have resumed an old horse track on the Nepal side this year but locals say otherwise.

The Sudurpaschim government released Rs 4.5 million amount through Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment to airlift the food stuff to the villages.

Price of even locally-grown vegetables has gone up making it unaffordable, say locals.

The landslide triggered by heavy rainfall swept away 10 houses and a school building in Naugad Rural Municipality.

Residents of Khalanga fear possible floods every monsoon, as the embankments that were damaged seven years ago are yet to be reconstructed.

Other homebound people of both countries also crossed the international border to go home.

Hundreds of home-bound Nepali workers were quarantined in the border area after Nepal-India border was sealed amid fear of Covid-19 around a month ago.

More than 30 tried to cross the boundary river this weekend.

Around 500 Nepali migrant workers are currently stuck at the border with India in Darchula because of the ongoing lockdown, and they're desperate to get back.

The district produces 46MW of electricity, but over 70 percent of its population are compelled to live in the dark.

A construction guideline was issued after the 2015 earthquakes, but it hasn’t been fully implemented yet.