Tharu Ethnographic Museum to set up at Jamuwa

Kathmandu - A Tharu Ethnographic Museum is to be opened at Jamuwa of Kanchanrup Municipality-6 in Saptari district. The museum building has been constructed. Chief Conservation Officer at the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Ramdev Chaudhary inaugurated the museum building on Monday. The two-storied building has been constructed on one kaththa land and at a cost of six million 875 thousand rupees.

Of this amount, Rs 5.5 million was provided by the Ministry of Forests and Environment while the rest was in the form of local voluntary labour contribution. On the occasion, Chaudhary expressed the belief that operation of the museum would help preserve the culture and customs of the indigenous Tharu peoples and promote tourism in the area.