The government aims to make Nepal leprosy-free by 2020 but every year one or two new cases of leprosy surface in the country.

Many locals complain that the rising rate of taxes has taken a toll on their finances.

Darchula locals also have to travel to Baitadi to seek government services.

Thirteen people have died in 31 road accidents in the first six months of the current fiscal year, according to the data of the District Traffic Police Office in Kanchanpur.

Only the damaged embankment and two government office buildings have been reconstructed in the last seven years.

Hospitals in most hill districts do not have mental health treatment facilities to treat those who need help.

Rasyalek area, which connects several villages to Kanda, the administrative centre of Saipal, is blanketed with more than seven feet of snow.

Most of the hospitals in the district refer patients to hospitals outside the district for lack of blood.

The municipality also plans to run various income-generating programmes to make them financially independent.

It’s been three and a half months since PM KP Sharma Oli declared the country ‘Open Defecation Free’.

Local farmers are no longer interested in growing indigenous crops.

Security personnel used force on women rights activists who were protesting in front of the Kanchanpur District Court seeking justice for Nirmala Pant.

Tuins are still in operation at seven places in Byas Rural Municipality.

The old market places of Hasuliya and Bhajani were deserted during the Maoist insurgency.

Aside from the adoption of illegal fishing methods, haphazard excavation of riverbed materials is also harming the aquatic population of the river.

The provincial government comes under fire for allocating much of the funds in building temples and shrines.

Health officials claim the tele-ultrasound system helps to control the alarming child and maternal mortality rates.

The neglected palace was further damaged during the Maoist insurgency when rebels set the palace on fire.

The Satti Karnali Community Forest has been providing training to make furniture from canes sticks.

The programme includes the students’ parents, who are provided with stipends and taught to prepare nutritious meals for their children.