In the past one and a half months, 24 students at Pashupati Secondary have been afflicted with the condition.

The municipality has made investments in the productive sectors in an effort to boost the income of the villagers.

As mayor, Rai’s model of development has been celebrated by locals for turning Dharan into a modern, cosmopolitan city.

Provincial, local governments say the federal government’s guideline regarding the construction of connecting road infrastructure infringes upon their rights.

For the track to reach the Nepal-China border point, the construction company still needs to cut a passage through a nearly one-kilometre rocky cliff face.

The traffic office has set up its desks in Kakadbhitta, Birtamod and Damak to issue and check time-cards.

Haphazard parking in the market area has increased the risk of accidents because of congestion, locals say.

Stone smugglers from Mechinagar in Jhapa have been extracting stones from the Chure region for a long time now, say locals.

Schools lack computers and qualified teachers to run computer science classes.

Lack of investors, skilled manpower and legal hurdles are behind Ilam’s failure to hold a commercial flight, stakeholders say.

Two of its administrative offices—the rooms of vice-chancellor and registrar—have been padlocked by various student unions for seven months over disagreements about the appointment of university officials.

The locals have been collecting riverbed materials from the respective lands that they claim to be theirs.

The planned pro-agriculture projects haven’t started yet while the allocated budget doesn’t get spent, with farmers worrying a setback for their profession.

The Province 1 government has been expanding 22.7 km of the road into four lanes with a design that doesn’t take into account the locals living along the road.

Six months ago, the Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives in Province-1 had invested Rs 7.6 million for the mobile testing laboratory and handed it over to the Soil and Fertilizer Testing Laboratory in Surunga.

Currently, there are 300,000 people with disabilities across the country. Among them, 94,640 are in Province 1.

Protesters demand the government change its policy on the forests conserved by consumers.

Lime extraction has also endangered aquatic life in the Sunkoshi river since the residue pollutants from the excavation site finds its way into the river.

The provincial government has plans to distribute and plant tree saplings in 12 districts of the province, except in Jhapa and Panchthar.

Locals complain of local government’s indifference while entrepreneurs lament the dip in business.