Road connection transforms a Jumla local unit

Improved access brings health, education and market opportunities to residents of Patarasi Rural Municipality.

Gorakh Bahadur Rawat, who is in his mid-forties, of Chaurgaun in ward 3 of Patarasi Rural Municipality, still recalls the hardships villagers faced until a few years ago. There were no roads, no agricultural markets, and quite limited government services in the village. Villagers had to walk for hours to reach Khalanga, the district headquarters of Jumla, to buy essentials and sell their agricultural produce and products.