The Education Unit of Chandrapur Municipality says that every possible step would be taken to help parents send their wards to school.

Musahar children are deprived of birth and citizenship certificates due to the apathy of local government, guardians say.

Factory owners have been visiting farmers to encourage them to plant sugarcane by offering different schemes, farmers say.

The majority of people in the Musahar settlements are unvaccinated as they lack awareness, local leaders say.

The forest rangers are unequipped to fight off armed poachers, forest officials say.

The agitating farmers had called off their protest last year following an assurance from the government that the delinquent mills would pay them within 21 days.

WTO says India violated trade rules when it offered excessive subsidies to the production and export of sugar and sugarcane.

Around 30 percent of posts in the government offices of the district are vacant, according to the District Administration Office.

Around 5,000 families in Rautahat have been affected by the delay. Officials say they lack funds to finish the homes.

It has been raining continuously for the past few days, leaving several settlements at risk of floods and inundation.

Security personnel lobbed two dozen tear gas canisters to contain the situation after a violent clash ensued between rival political parties in Maulapur Municipality of Rautahat district on Thursday.

Floods in Bagmati and Lalbakaiya rivers had breached embankments and inundated settlements in Rautahat last year.

Out of a total of 29,400 hectares of forest cover in Rautahat, 3,190 hectares have been encroached upon in the district.

Local residents fear possible inundation during monsoons after the construction of a high dam-like structure for the railway track.

Local residents say they have transferred the ownership of their fertile land to the government, but haven’t received anything in return from officials who promised them money.