Govt team reaches Barekot after 51 years

Jajarkot, March 20

The government has reached out to geographically challenging and remote Barekot Rural Municipality after 51 years.

The District Administration Office recently set up an integrated mobile camp in the village to provide government services to the locals.

A total of 1,130 local people acquired citizenship cards and 1,348 others registered for the voters’ roll with photograph from the camp that ran for four days in the rural municipality.

The locals were facing various difficulties without citizenship certificates, said the rural municipality chairperson Mahendra Bahadur Shah.

No government team has made it to the village that has been deprived of basic facilities such as road, health and education so far since 1967, said principal of local Birendra Aishwarya Secondary School Gorak Bahadur Singh.

Besides, the locals are facing hardship without basic facilities — road, hospital and education, telephone and bank. They have to walks hours to reach the district headquarters to avail of government services.

The nearest market is hours away. Goods and essentials are supplied to the village bordering Jumla district through mules and horses, said locals. As a result, they are forced to buy essentials at high prices.