Youth exodus to India leaves Bajura villages with ageing, ailing residents

In Bajura’s impoverished villages, schools are on the brink due to fewer students, elderly are dying at home unattended for days.

Kamal Sarki, a 19-year-old man from Kadagaun village located in ward 1 of Khaptad Chhededaha Rural Municipality in Bajura district, has been working in New Delhi as a building security guard for more than four years. He came to the village last week and is planning to return this week.