"idology".
Poor People needs are Roti & Rojgar for ever, but rulers since long
time are trying create illusion of nationality, and build fencing or
great wall, so that Ruler regim remain intacted inside the fence of
"soverinity" and "nationality". This expose the hollow base around
which human development is shout.
Thanks,
Ram Manohar
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Destination India to escape hunger
Damodar Bhandary
Banke, December 18:
Unable to bear the pangs of hunger and mounting debts back home, a
section of famished residents of mid-west are making a beeline for
India for sustenance.
Usually, the burden of debts piles up after festive occasions like
Dashain and Tihar.
To compound their woes, the food grains' stock, too, runs out around
this time of the year.
Consider the case of Jagat Malla, a resident of Devasthal in Salyan,
who entered India via Nepalgunj today.
"There is nothing to eat back home. Children are always crying of
hunger. To make
matters worse, I haven't been able to repay the loan I took from the
moneylender during Dashain. I've no option but to go to India to make
both ends meet," say a hapless Malla.
He isn't alone. Forty other members of his native village are part of
this combat-hunger trail. The trickle has mutated into a steady stream
as the hilly districts in the remote corner of the country don't even
produce enough for subsistence. "There isn't enough for everybody
through the year. Besides, we cannot grow adequate food grains due to
the hilly nature of the terrain. We have to depend on outside support
to tide over the crisis," say Dhruba Khatri, a resident of Phalawang
in Rolpa. India, however, is hardly a greener pasture for this under-
nourished lot.
"We work as labourers in double shifts, through day and night. Even
then, we hardly make enough to pay off our debts," says Khatri.
Dil Bahadur Khadka, a resident of Chhedgaon in Jajarkot district,
echoes Khatri.
"I never wanted to go to India in the first place. But how long can
one go hungry?" asks Khadka, whose migration party boasts of 50
companions.
Officials at Jamuna Police Post, on Nepal-India border, corroborate
the exodus from the impoverished zones. At least, 12,000 Nepalis have
gone to India in search of better livelihood over the past two months.
"At a conservative estimate, 200 people are entering India from this
check post," says Bishwo Gautam, sub-inspector, Jamuna Police Post.
The hunger trail, which begins in back-of-beyond Rolpa, Rukum,
Surkhet, Dailekh, Jajarkot and Salyan districts, usually end up in
prosperous Indian cities and towns like Chandigarh, Mumbai, Delhi,
Simla and Dehradun for two square meals a day.
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