Baitadi local unit changes names of Dalit settlements to assuage caste discrimination

Residents say name change is a good step but attitudes towards Dalits have not changed.

In September last year, a 36-year-old woman from Bhattad settlement of Patan Municipality-6 in Baitadi was in the neighbouring village of Silanga in Ward No 2 for work. She felt thirsty and decided to stop at a house and ask for water.