Jajarkot-Dolpa road suffers setback

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JAJARKOT, June 11 - Construction of the rural road from Jajarkot to Dolpa has suffered a setback after the contractor failed to bring rice in time to run the "food for work" programme to construct the road.

The workers engaged in road construction refused to work in credit and many more people who had thronged here with the hope of getting job are also returning home.

The preliminary plan was to construct the road until the 2,000 quintals of coarse rice set aside for the road construction lasted in this fiscal year, but the contractor has not transported even 1,000 quintals of rice so far. Half of the rice is given to porters who transport the rice on their back.

Contractor Pawan Agrawal has received contract to buy foodgrain and also transport it to 30 districts. When the workers refused to accept the 750 quintals of rice of low quality as it did not tally with the sample shown to them, the contractor himself came and returned only 52 quintals. The famine-stricken people were forced to eat the remaining low quality rice.

Until now only five kilometres of the motorable road has been constructed with the 750 quintals and additional 250 quintals in credit from Khalanga Shanti Chautara VDC ward No. 9 to Kalegaon, secretary of the Road Construction Committee Dipak Shah said. He said that workers refused to work after they failed to receive the 250 quintals of rice.

Maoist suspect shot dead

BANKE, June 11 (PR) - Police recently shot a suspected Maoist rebel dead on the banks of the Rapti river, a police source said. According to the source, the man whose identity was not disclosed hailed from Dailekh.

The suspected Maoist rebel was reportedly involved in the Maoist attack at Naumoole based area police outpost in Dailekh, where 33 policemen were killed and dozen others sustained injuries on the first week of April.

The Jamunaha-based border police had arrested the man at a time when he was crossing the Nepal-India border. He was found to have serious injuries on his hands and was going to India for treatment.

A police command from the Regional Police Office in Nepalgunj took the suspected rebel on the river bank and fired at him point-blank, the source said.

Bank shifted for safety

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MYAGDI, June 11- A Darbang-based branch office of the Nepal Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) was shifted last week to Beni, the district headquarters, in view of an impending attack from Maoist rebels, an ADB source said.

The branch office formally began its service in the district headquarters from Sunday. People from 16 Village Development Committees in the western part of this remote hill district have been deprived of banking service following the transfer of the ADB branch.

Earlier, another branch office of the Small Farmers’ Development Project from another VDC was merged to Beni due to the fear of Maoist attack. The source said none of the financial institutions were left working in the rural areas.

Tributes to Their Late Majesties

KATHMANDU, June 11 (PR) -Chairman of International Falcom Movement Social Educational International (IMF-SEI) Sweden Osten Lovegreen, his wife Gerd , International secretary of Unga Ornar Carina Ericson and Ted Birch of Olof Palme Centre, Britain have extended heartfelt condolences over the untimely demise of King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and other Royal Family members.

The condolence message received from Sweden said they were very shocked to hear the heart-rendering news and worried not getting access to ‘ any logical explanation about what really happened’.

Unga Ornar and Lovegreen have contributed significantly to the establishment and operation of Pre-primary School Bal Mandir Project Nepal (PSBM). According to PSBM project coordinator Nirbikar Shrestha, the project is to launch mobile training camp for teachers all over the kingdom and some 5,700 teachers are to be trained from Central Development Region this year. ‘In the this connection, applications are being received from many schools and those schools which are still yet to applay may aply by the second week of July, Shrestha disclosed.

IMF-SEI is an international organization working for democracy, freedom, equality as well as international commitment and solidarity for youths and children.IMF-SEI has affiliation with organisations from over 50 different countries all over the world.