The newly elected mayor of Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City assumed the office on Sunday.

Mayor Man Bahadur GC received a celebratory welcome on his first day to work at Newroad-based office.

He was joined by Deputy Mayor Manju Devi Gurung.

Shortly after he took office, Mayor GC pledged the metropolis three things after

assuming the mayoral role: Make the services effective within 10 days; increase social security allowance for the elderly by 10 percent, effective from the start of  the new fiscal year; and introduce free legal consultation service to women  who are victims of gender and domestic violences.

He promised to fix the financial leakage in the system to generate spending for the elderly allowance programme, without impacting other plans.

There are 13,107 elderly people above 70 years of age in the city.

GC, who ran for the mayoral post from the CPN-UML, also vowed to realise the plans that were mentioned in the party’s election manifesto.