Villages struggle as hydel projects leave Kalanga River dry

Farmers in several village of Kedarsyun Rural Municipality are grappling with water scarcity, and mourners cannot take ritual dips after cremating body.

On October 22, a 40-year-old woman from ward 4 of Kedarsyun Rural Municipality in Bajhang, fell off a cliff while cutting grass and suffered critical injuries. She was rushed to Dhangadhi town of Kailali for lack of a good hospital in Bajhang. But the doctors in Dhangadhi advised her family to take her to a well-facilitated hospital. However, her family thought it better to take her home since they weren’t able to manage enough money for her treatment at a bigger hospital elsewhere. She died two days later in Dadeldhura on October 24 on her way home.