Villagers in North Gorkha rely on mules to bring in essential goods

People of the remote villages have to pay three times the actual cost to bring in essentials, including food, clothes and construction materials, on mules.

The northern villages of Gorkha district are unreachable by road. Cut off from the urban centres of the district, the villagers have to either subsist on their local farm produce, which is far from sufficient, or import goods—including food items—on mules.