Only 10% people have access to electricity in Dolakha

Charikot (Dolakha), Dec. 21 (RSS):Altogether 10 percent people enjoy electricity facility in Dolakha district.

At present the residents of one municipality and 10 village development committees have received electricity facility.

On completion of the electrification work which is underway, Sundrabati, Sunkhani, Japhe, Malu, Melung, Khule, Tamchetdudh Pokhari, Pawati Musaphedi, Fasku, Sailungeswore, Gyangsukathokar, Dandakharka, Bhedpu, Bhige and Kalingchowk VDCs of Dolakha district and Rasnal and Bethan village development committees of Ramechhap district will receive electricity, according to NEA Dolakha district chief engineer Rastra Bhushan Pradhan.

At present 4,000 clients consume an average of 300,000 units of electricity a month. Ninety-five per cent electricity bills is being recovered by the NEA.

The NEA district office is reported to have recovered Rs 50,000 from various clients and industries for causing leakage of electricity.

Meanwhile a high tension metering unit system has been installed at Bocha Village Development Committee to gather information of the electricity consumed in the district and check leakage of electricity.

At present 75 per cent of the people of the municipality receive electricity facility.

Works are being carried out to install a 13 kilometre electricity line in Charikot and eight kilometre electricity line in Dolakha for installation of street lights.

On completion of the sub-station at ward no 12 of Bhimeswore Municipality, the problem of voltage dropping will reduce and electricity problem in a particular area will not affect the whole district.

Permission to Bheri Cold Storage cancelled

Nepalgunj, Dec. 21 (RSS): Nepalgunj Industrial Estate has cancelled the permission being given to Bheri Cold Storage Private Limited to open a cold storage within the industrial estate even after 20 years.

The Private Limited was given permission to open a cold storage in Baisakh 15, 2037 B.S.

It has been utilising the physical facilities of the industrial estate but has not opened the cold storage yet.

Under the regulation of the industrial estate, the industry receiving a building within the industrial estate is required to open the industry within one year, according to chief of the Nepalgunj Industrial Estate Dil Babadur Malla.

Of the 30 industries which received permission from the industrial estate, Nepal Spice Products Private Limited, Super Nirma Industry, Tandom Textiles and Anil Venigar have closed down, 23 industries are running and three industries are under construction within the industrial estate.

Nepalgunj Industrial Estate set up in 2030 B.S. has been operating since the fiscal year 2032/33. the industrial estate spread over 233 ropanis of land has 23 industrial sheds.

The industries are charged Rs 1/53 per sq.ft per month for the building and Rs 1,666 a year for one ropani of land within the industrial estate.

Meanwhile the industrialists have built 50 small buildings within the industrial estate.

The Nepalgunj Industrial Estate produces good worth about Rs 700 million every year and provides jobs to 619 people.

108 Maoists surrender in Terhathum, Baglung

Terhathum, Dec. 21 (RSS):So far, 47 persons involved in Maoist insurgency have surrendered at the Terhathum District Administration Office following the declaration of the State of Emergency in the country.

According to CDO Ram Prasad Ghimire, those surrendered include Maoist activists working on the different ranks in the so-called Maoists' district and town committees.

All the persons who surrendered at the local administration have expressed their commitment to henceforth, abstain from involving any kind of terrorist activity and live a normal life.

In Baglung, an all-party meeting at the District Administration Office yesterday held special discussions on the activities of the district.

At the meeting, Chief District Officer (CDO) Shiva Nepal disclosed that 61 persons involved in terrorist Maoist activity had surrendered at the District Administration Office.

The meeting constituted a committee with representation from all the political parties and with CDO Shiva Nepal as the chairman.

The committee will hold a meeting to exchange and share information on controlling terrorism and its function will be to extend and receive necessary cooperation in this regard, it is learnt.

According to the reports received from Nuwakot, underground Maoists have dismantled the building of the Agriculture Service Centre located at Deurali, about four miles north-west of Bidur, the headquarters of Nuwakot district on Wednesday night.

According to Narayan Prasad Khanal, agricultural tools, hammars and spades were used to dismantle the house. the windows and doors were taken out and set ablaze.

The Maoists attacked the centre when the J.T.A. was on a field visit and a peon had gone to the district headquarters.

All the furniture, agricultural tools, clothes of the employees and utensils have been destroyed, Khanal said.

In Nepalgunj, the room of account section and verandah of the top floor of the Banke District Land Revenue Office building have been completely damaged when a bomb exploded this morning.

Cracks have been developed in the entire top floor and seven doors and four windows have been damaged.

Documents kept inside a steel Almirah were damaged by bomb.

The explosion has caused a big hole of about 2 feet diameter at the ceiling where the bomb went off. The incident took place at 5:45 a.m. this morning.

The explosion is believed to have been carried out by Maoists terrorists. A probe has been initiated in this connection.

Meanwhile, in Kapilvastu, five suspected Maoist terrorists have been arrested along with muskets during the course of a cordon and search operation conducted by Royal Nepalese Army on Thursday.

According to the Kapilvastu district administration office, a fake pistol, some socket bombs, coins and documents concerning Maoists insurgency have also been recovered from the site.

Likewise, in Gulmi, Jaya Prasad Aryal, chairman of Simichaur VDC and Chuda Bahadur Thapa, chairman of Jaishithok VDC have been seriously injured after a band of Maoists insurgents assaulted them on Wednesday night.

According to a report received here, the armed Maoist terrorists stormed into the house of the chairman of Simichaur VDC and torched his house, a cowshed, bales of straw and other necessary documents.

According to the villagers, property worth Rs. 3.5 million has been destroyed in the fire.

At the same night, the Maoist terrorists stormed the house of chairman of Jaishithok VDC and beat him up with steel batons.

Both the injured have been referred to Kathmandu after being unable to treat them at the district headquarters.

Action to be taken against ADB loan defaulters

Nuwakot, Dec. 21 (RSS):Small Enterprises Development Programme (SEDP) has decided to take action against the various groups taking loans from the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) without collateral and not paying back the loans for a long time.

The decision to this effect was taken after the meeting chaired by Nuwakot DDC chairman Narayan Prasad Khatiwada sent repeated letters to the Tupche Sewing Industry Group, and the Nepali Paper Industry Groups of Bungtang and Fikuri to pay back the loans taken by them.

Under the Poverty Alleviation Programme of His Majesty's Government, the Agricultural Development Bank had been providing loans without collateral to groups with skills to produce goods by using local raw materials on the recomendation of the Small Enterprises Development Office.

President of Nuwakot District Chamber of Industry and Commerce Dhananarayan Chitrakar told RSS that loans taken by the groups would be recovered by freesing their movable and immovable property as such groups had deprived others of the opportunity of becoming self-reliant by not repaying the loans taken by them.

Manager of the Small Enterprises Development Programme Prem Raj Neupane said that the decision to take stern action against the groups not repaying loans had been taken because of the increasing tendency among the people that they do not have to repay their loans after the rise in Maoist terrorist activities in the country.

This tendency has created difficulties for the Small Enterprises Development Programme to issue loans to other individuals as well as groups wishing to carry out works, he added.