Food depot in Mugu empty for months forcing locals to buy rice at higher price

While villages in Karnali face shortage of food grains, subsidised rice meant for the region are being sold elsewhere.

Tara Chanda Chaulagain of Kalai village in Soru Rural Municipality, Mugu, has not received any subsidised rice in the past eight months. The Food Management and Trading Company Limited has its sales centre in this remote village of Karnali Province but the centre, according to Chaulagain, has not provided subsidised rice to the locals since March.