Police arrest swindlers in Nepalgunj

Nepalgunj, July 19 (RSS): A strange cheating case has taken place in this mid-west terai business hub, according to the city police.

Police have arrested Gopal Gurung of Jogi Kuti, Butwal, Min Bahadur Thapa of Banel Pokhari and Kisan Bahadur Kumal of Gulmi for faking a bundle of paper for bank notes and swindling Rs 40,000 from a man.

Police have confiscated Rs 16,000 from the accused.

It is learnt that the three cheated Rs 40,000 from Chandra Prasad Dhakal, a resident of Tandi, Chitwan who was travelling by bus. The accused faked the bundle of papers as Rs 1000 notes.

Rupees one thousand bank notes had been kept on either side of the bundle to make it look like a stack of bank notes, it is learnt.

The incident took place while Dhakal was going from Chitwan to Dhangadhi and the police arrested the swindlers when the bus reached Chapar Gauri.

Meanwhile, police said miscreants looted Rs 4,000 in cash, a handbag, citizenship card and bank cheque book from Paramananda Bhandari, a resident of Magaragadi, Bardiya by splashing paste of biscuit on him.

When Bhandari went to a nearby tap to wash off the slime, the looters made off with all his goods near local Bipachaur in Bardiya district.

22 Kw of power generated

Kavre, July 19 (RSS): 22 kw of power has been generated from the waters of the Chauri Khola through the assistance of HMG and UNDP and the cooperation of the DDC, VDC and the Agriculture Development Bank and voluntary labour from local villagers. The project has benefitted 205 households.

The project was constructed at a cost of Rs 3,264,434 with 50 per cent of the investment coming from the rural energy development programme and 30 per cent from HMG through the Agricultural Development Bank.

The project involved community mobilisation for three years.

Task force constituted

Kathmandu (RSS): A task force has been constituted to make the scope of the cooperatives dynamic and study measures to take the spirit and norms of the co-operatives down to the people's level by devising people's oriented programme. The task force will present its report within three months.

The co-chairman of the National Co-operatives Development Board has been designated chairman of the task force with a joint secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives, planning division, the registrar at the Department of Co-operatives, the vice chairman of the national co-operatives association, a representative from the National Planning Commission secretariat and co-operatives experts Tej Bahadur Pant and Shantaraj Sharma have been designated members.

The principal of the co-operatives training centre is the member-secretary of the task force.