”It's hard to survive without keeping a name in Thaplo”

Income is sometimes earned by earning wages

Ashad 2, 2082

Tenginga Lama

”It's hard to survive without keeping a name in Thaplo”

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Days have passed in suffering to feed the stomach. There is no rice cultivation in this area. It is the turn of two hall melo. The field has not been kept barren. Since only one crop is grown in a year, I used to plant wheat, barley, corn, and corn. It is very difficult to save this cultivation.

Wild animals like bear, monkey, deer, wild animal, ghoral, naur etc. destroy crops . It has been more than 10 years since such a problem has been added . When bringing in corn, you should stay in the garden. I bring in 50 heads of corn a year to protect it from wild animals . 40 apple trees are growing . There are 6 cows . Cows are reared for manure. Sometimes it is necessary to drink milk. 

I was born in Chumanuvri-5 Bihi in the northern part of Gorkha. I am 48 years old. No way of income . No matter what one does with the cultivation of crops, it is not enough to eat for a year . Salt, oil, rice are bought and eaten.

Since there is no paddy cultivation, it costs 4000 per bag to buy rice brought by Khachhad. Sometimes I buy rice from the market and sometimes for food. It is a little cheaper as the transportation of food rice is not charged. Sugar costs one hundred rupees per mana. If shipping is expensive, the price will be higher . It is more sad because it is a Himalayan region. It is difficult to get money. If the money you spent bought rice, bought oil, bought sugar, it will be fine.  It costs a lot to raise the cost of eating

. I didn't get to study even one class . Uneducated people can't even get a job . I spent all these years saving up for food, I didn't even think about going abroad to earn money. I have taught three daughters and one son in Serang Gumwa. They sit and study there (with residential facilities). We are old people at home . Sometimes we live by eating dhendo, sometimes by eating rice and sometimes by eating rice. Even if there are two people, at least 10,000 per month will be spent.

is sad for the stomach . Even after reaching Samagaon two days away, I carry stones, cut planks, and collect firewood . Sometimes I go to the work of pulling the sticks of the suspension bridge . Doing this job earns 1000 per day.

It used to take four days to reach Gorkha Bazar on foot. Now it takes two days to reach Gorkha market from my village Bihi . We have been getting this facility while driving to Pangsing for the past three years. Now, after one day walking and one day by car, Gorkha Bazar can be reached in two days . Even now I go to Pangsing where the car arrived to carry heavy . Materials that cannot be carried by khachad must be carried by people.

It is a pleasure to carry the luggage of tourists, lama gurus or guests who come to Manaslu area . They give up to 2000/4000 depending on the goods . Income is sometimes obtained from wage labor . This job is not always available. When I got a job, I used this money to buy rice, salt, oil, and clothes. 

There is a house covered with stone mud, wooden planks . There is nothing big sick . Sometimes stomach ache and sometimes toothache . When I am sick, I go to the health post of Bihi . Healthpost does not pay for treatment.

Maybe because it is a remote place, we have been suffering since birth . As there was no school in the village, he could not study. Wherever you go, you have to walk. You have to carry whatever you want to bring. Before, when we were little, we used to eat only heaps of corn. It was more difficult to get than to buy rice and eat it.

We came to Khachhad and bought rice and were able to eat it . When the vehicle did not come to Pangsing, I still remember that I had to walk for four days to reach Gorkha Bazar even to take a citizenship photo. Not only me, but all the people here are sad . If you don't keep a register in Thaplo, there will be no income . There is only pain in this place, you never know when happiness will come.

Presentation: Hariram Upreti

Tenginga

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