by Basant Pratap Singh in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 4, 2023Chatte Bohara, a local of Rupatola in ward 3 of Talkot Rural Municipality, has been working as a construction worker at the 40-kilometre Rupatola-Dhuli road section under the 117-kilometre Chainpur-Taklakot road for five years. He says he has not received his daily wages for the last four years. More than 150 other workers have not received their wages for over a year while some have…
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By Sardar Shafaq IN TOLOnews, June 23, 2023 at 9:43 PMThe head of the press directorate of the Khost educational department said that around 13,000 students, both boys and girls, lack access to schools in many districts of the province. The press director for the provincial education department, Abdul Kabir Sangin, said that deteriorated economic conditions caused thousands of children who are eligible for school to be deprived of education. “Nearly 13,000 girls and boys…
by Ashutosh Sarkar in The Daily Star, Apr 14, 2023Both the victims and convicts of Ramna Batamul bomb blasts have been deprived of final justice due to legal tangles, even 22 years after the gruesome incident. Different issues, including repeated adjournments and reconstitution of High Court benches, have unusually delayed disposal of the case filed for killing of 10 people in the blasts. Besides, it is still uncertain when the appeals filed by the convicts…
by Bharat Jargha Magar in The Kathmandu Post,Feb 2, 2023Forty-eight-year-old Shankar Sadaya lives in Shobhapur, a Musahar settlement in Lahan Municipality-18, Siraha. Most people in the settlement, including his family of five, have been deprived of basic government services for the lack of citizenship certificate. “All five members of my family are above 16 years of age but we haven’t been able to acquire citizenship certificates,” said Shankar. “Because of that, my children were deprived…