BAJURA, APRIL 30
Bajura district has plunged into poverty due to floods and other natural disasters every year. Due to these natural calamities, the district is facing serious threat of starvation.
The district has been identified as one of the poorest districts. The budget allocated to the district by the central government is also not used properly.
According to Human Development Report 2015 and the previous census, around 64.1 per cent of the population was living in poverty in the district. Another report published by Poor Households Identify Board in 2015, around 71.1 per cent population was living in poverty in the district.
The average age of Nepali is 69.2, but the average age of people in Bajura is 59.2.
Mostly women are at the receiving end due to the increasing poverty.
Badimalika Municipality Health Coordinator Tek Bahadur Khadka said that most of the people in the district were suffering from malnutrition and had to lose their lives early. As per the statistics, around 35 per cent of the total population is living in extreme form of poverty in Bajura.
The representatives of the board reached the door steps of people and carried out a study and identified the poor in the most food crisis-hit district.
Around 7.5 per cent of the families are landless people.
According to the District Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Bajura, food grains can hardly last for three months for 38.7 per cent of the population, 27.4 per cent households can hardly sustain for six months, 7.6 per cent households can live with the food for nine months and 4.4 per cent households face food crisis throughout the year.
Of the nine local levels in Bajura, more than 75 per cent people in Swamikartik Rural Municipality live in extreme poverty.
Province Assembly member of Bajura Constituency Ka Baldev Regmi said it was necessary to introduce different programmes to eradicate poverty in Bajura. He said that most of the people went to India for livelihood.
A version of this article appears in the print on May 01, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
