Long road blockade makes Bajhang VDCs go hungry
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BAJHANG, OCT 12 -
Eighteen VDCs in Bajhang district are reeling under acute food shortage since the past two months.
Delivery of foodstuff to these VDCs has been hampered due to road blockades caused by landslides this monsoon.
The depot of Nepal Food Corporation (NFC), the state-run food agency, at the district headquarters, Chainpur, has around 2,000 quintals of rice in stock. Ram Bahadur Thapa of the NFC said that the stock needs to be cleared within the next four months or else it could go bad.
“It is not that the district has run out of food supply. It’s just that the food access has been restricted owing to the landslides in different parts,” he said.
Meanwhile, people in the food shortage-hit VDCs have demanded that the government establish NFC depots at convenient locations so that they could have easy access to food even in times of natural disasters.
Two NFC depots at Juji and Bisauna, closed during the insurgency, have not resumed services yet. With the NFC depot only at Chainpur, people living in far off villages are compelled to travel for as many as seven days to buy subsidised food. When the roads linking these villages to Chainpur are blocked by landslides or other natural disasters, there is no way the villagers could receive food.
More than 25 VDCs in Bajhang rely on NFC for food due to their low agricultural produce.
Posted on: 2010-10-12 09:07
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