The women of Khori spearheaded a movement wherein development projects took off and social evils slowly disappeared with the men looking in from the periphery.

People complain of discrepancies in beneficiary list prepared by District Administration Office as fake victims lay claim to government grants.

Around 20,000 families are left without safe drinking water, which could lead to outbreak of diseases.

Residents of the affected settlements have urged authorities to move them to safer locations.

In the absence of a bridge, local residents use boats and tyre tubes to cross the Mahakali river and buy daily essentials and get medical treatment in India.

Middlemen have been buying tickets from airlines and selling them at higher prices, local residents say.

Recent floods and landslides swept away several electricity poles and blocked roads.

Various settlements are at high risk of flooding with the increase in the flow of Mahakali and Karnali rivers.

At least 60 people are waiting to be rescued from the flood-affected area.

The project was delayed due to problem in transporting construction materials.

Various sections along the Dhangadhi-Dadeldhura road have caved in due to multiple landslides during the monsoon rains this year.

Lack of health awareness, poverty, geographical remoteness and non-cooperation of family lead most women to go for home births despite risks.

Landslides in early September destroyed houses and fertile lands and still pose a grave risk to settlements in Chure Rural Municipality, Kailali.

A majority of local government offices are operating from congested rented buildings.

Vast tracts of arable land have been swept away due to unchecked riverbank erosion along the Seti river in last few years.

As per a 2016 survey, 36 percent of children under five were stunted, nine percent wasted, and 28 percent of children were underweight in the Province.

While Food Management and Trading Company Limited has stopped selling subsidised rice, food prices in the local market have skyrocketed due to transport disruption.

Around 40 children suffering from high fever, common cold, cough and pneumonia are visiting the emergency unit of Mahakali Provincial Hospital on a daily basis, health workers say.

Around 124 students of Samaiji Basic School have been affected as they do not have proper classrooms.

Five individuals were killed, two others injured and several families displaced in the August 29 floods.