Although the local administration has fixed the rate for public vehicles driving on blacktopped roads at Rs5 per km and on dirt roads at Rs8 per km, most of the jeeps charge eight times more.

Although the constitution guarantees free basic education, most community schools struggle to extend the service to students.

The embankment is being built along four kilometres of the Jogbuda river on both sides.

The factory produces hand-made brooms and other products made of bamboo.

To provide services to the people, health workers have been carrying water from distant water sources to the health posts daily.

Lack of proper landfill sites leading to pollution of streams and rivers.

According to directives, only 3kgs of resin can be extracted from mature trees but contractors are extracting more than the stated amount and that too from young trees.

Every week, the Bayalpata Hospital, which has a dedicated mental health bureau, sees over a hundred women suffering from depression, doctors say.

Authorities say they are being compelled to hand over the responsibility of ward secretaries to health workers due to a lack of employees.

For lack of education and employment opportunities, most of them are living a life of poverty and destitution.

Many people die in the remote district due to superstitious belief and delayed medical response, say health workers.

The construction of the road stretch started under the Panchayat government. However, the track is yet to be completed.

Experts say droughts, poor transportation facilities and lack of irrigation facility and access to market are behind the continuing food insecurity.

The Far-west is the country’s poorest province where 33.9 percent of people are under the poverty line. But the sight of the local units and people’s representatives is apparently somewhere else—on the temples.

Open and engaging atmosphere at the school has encouraged guardians to enroll their wards at the school, students say.

Even new government buildings are not accessible to people with disabilities, making it tough for them to avail of state services.

The report has been published after three-year-long research on the Seti river watershed area.

They complain about poor coordination with the provincial, federal government, despite the programme inching closer.

Health-related awareness programmes conducted by mothers’ groups have become a boon for women.

The hospital had been marred with a shortage of doctors for a long time but the vacant posts are now filled.