”The 7 lakh rin of building a house has become a trap”

After buying 100 bushels of corn a day and filling it in a bicycle basket, I walk to sell it with a microphone

Falgun 11, 2081

kumari sunar

”The 7 lakh rin of building a house has become a trap”

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When I wake up at 3 in the morning to go to work, I slowly leave the house to see if the sound of the bicycle will wake up my children who are fast asleep. After that, I reach Butwal bus park by riding my bicycle to buy corn to be transported by car from Chitwan. There, after choosing the best corns harvested by the car and paying the money, the streets will start to wander.

Now I am 30 years old . I have two children - a son and a daughter. Take care of them and go out to earn money. 

My husband and I sell corn from house to house in villages. After buying 100 pieces of corn husks a day and filling them in a bicycle basket, we go to Toltol to sell them with a microphone. We buy 20 rupees and sell them for 25 rupees . Our profit is our profit at the rate of 5 rupees per maize. Butwal-11, living in a squatter settlement in Buddhanagar, there is no other way of earning. 

After being born in the mountains, we got married there and came down to Butwal looking for a way to make a living. After coming here, washing is being done to collect ration water for evening and morning. 

Both of us initially worked as wage laborers in Butwal, which was full of people migrating from the mountains in search of opportunities. We have been selling corn for 5 years. I paid 2000 and bought a 'second hand' bicycle for business. Because the customer refuses to buy because it is stale, they have to sell as much as they can by filling the bicycle baskets and sacks. Sun, water, winter and summer cannot be said . When they don't get that corn, they have to stay at home . To sell fresh corn, one has to travel about 35 kilometers every day . If the corn is not sold by evening, I will sell it at pearl price. 

With the same 500 rupees earned during the day, I buy vegetables, pulses, oil and return home. Now the price of ration is very high . A sack of rice costs 2000 to 2600. Even that is not enough for 1 month . One liter of oil costs 260. The price of vegetables keeps changing day by day. We eat the same two vegetables in a week . Buying a kilo of lentils costs 2/300 . When my earnings are insufficient, I can buy ration water even if my husband earns. It is difficult to pay the required copies of books, clothes and school fees for the parents. 

After searching for 7 lakh rin from the neighbors and relatives, we prepared a place for pouring in Buddhanagar by adding block mud and tin roof. Now that Rin has become a trap . A little bit of savings is fine by paying the rin . No matter how much you earn by suffering, there is no savings. I don't even have a single saree . When going to weddings, fasts and pujas, I ask my neighbors to wear them . Since I am not in a position to buy and bring, I make a living by begging. After all, I have used three layers of cloth. 

When I get sick, I stay sick because I don't have money to go to the hospital. We have cooked it in the evening for an early walk . Grown-up children do not cook and eat. In the evening, I cook and we all sit and eat. You should also think about sitting down and drinking a cup of tea throughout the day. 

Since Tinau is a house by the river, it feels like living in the rain . I want to leave the squatter settlement and move to the market by buying land. It hurts when children do not study and learn by themselves. You can pay 800 rupees and buy it separately from the mobile phone. Who doesn't want to wear nice clothes and eat delicious food? But, when will such a wish be fulfilled and ? 

presentation: Sanju Paudel

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