Delay in supply of textbooks a yearly occurrence, according to students.

As per the data available at the CIAA provincial office in Birendranagar, complaints have been filed against the representatives of all the local units of the province.

Most of the poles are already bent with age and neglect.

The rural municipality has been working on upgrading traditional mills and making them affordable to the population.

The government has allocated Rs 900 million for the programme in the running fiscal year.

A combination of heavy snowfall and malnourishment spells disaster for the district.

There are six tuins still in operation across the Karnali river in the district, say locals.

The solar power was connected to a total of 4,200 households in Rupsa and its outlying villages such as Lalu, Malkot, Kumalgaun and Kotwada.

For lack of a chief, locals have to walk for two days to Gamgadhi, the district headquarters of Mugu, to make citizenship certificate.

Women who took literacy class have started to learn self-employment skills in the villages.

It’s been almost three years since local governments were formed but Junichande residents say they haven’t felt the impact of local governance yet.

Politicisation of school management committee elections in community schools expose students to highly volatile political atmosphere hampering their studies.

The move is aimed to control child marriages in the district, according to Salyan’s District Police Office.

According to police data, road accidents in the district have risen by three-fold in three years.

Local residents are dissatisfied with the decision to build a park in the forest.

The project is expected to source water from the Bheri River and supply it to more than 1,000 households in the municipality.

Although complete eradication of the practice seems like a far cry at the moment, various anti-Chhaupadi campaigns launched by young women have paved a way to fight against the practice.

With direct motorable access to nearby markets, villagers hope for development to take off.

Although the government has been running the Safe Motherhood Programme as part of its bid to ensure safe births in remote areas, only a few people are getting benefits from the programme.

Chaurjahari Municipality has introduced the Educational Counselling and Technology Programme in 23 of 40 schools to discourage negligence in teaching and learning activities.