Tuin becomes a thing of the past in Kalikot district

A total of 19 motorable bridges have been constructed in the outlying district so far replacing the makeshift cable crossings, locally known as tuin.

Until five years ago, Dhir Bahadur Shahi, a 52-year-old man from Rengil in Khandachakra Municipality Ward 11, had to use a tuin, an improvised cable crossing, to cross the Karnali river on his way to the market areas along the Karnali corridor. Back then, locals like Shahi had no option but to rely on the precarious tuin to cross the river. Students from various villages of Khandachakra-11 would use the tuin daily to go to schools in the neighbouring villages. “Students from Jaikot would cross the river on the tuin to attend Karnali Secondary School in Rengil,” Shahi recalls. “If the tuin was inoperable, they would have to take a two-hour detour to reach school.”