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Kathmandu,Tuesday May 09, 2000 Baishakh 27, 2057.
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Locals eyeing India for work
By a Post Reporter
BIRATNAGAR, May 8 - Forty percent people living in
the 12 VDCs of this district bordering India face famine for six months a year and go to
India to work as labourer and to help their family cope with famine.
The 12 VDCs are Mahadeva, Jhurkiya, Bardanga,
Dainiya, Amgachhi, Rangeli, Sorabhag, Amaibariyati, Nocha, Pokhariya, Budhabare and
Majhare.
The VDCs remain desolate for six months because
most of the male members are in India, said Musaru Mandal, Chairman of Amaibariyati VDC.
He said about two thousand people go to India from this VDC alone.
Due to the lack of irrigation facility in the
border area VDCs, agricultural production is minimum and there is no employment
opportunity available. Therefore, people go to India in search of job, former Chairman of
VDC Hari Lal Mandal said.
Morang DDC President Khadga Bahadur Basnet admitted
that food production lasts only for six months for the people of this region and that
there were no programmes designed to uplift their economic status. Basnet said he would
request all the NGOs of the district to implement their programmes in these VDCs in the
coming year.
The frequent movement of such a large population
between Nepal and India has another hazardous effect - these people are suspected by the
District AIDS Coordination Committee Morang of having imported HIV/AIDS. Officer of the
committee Jog Lal Neupane says the committee has initiated a massive awareness campaign
against HIV/AIDS in these VDCs to educate the local people.
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