Officials are to blame for Khagendra Navjeevan Kendra becoming Lathaling.

The conclusion of the investigation committee is that by appointing Usha Karki, the canteen operator at the center, as an adviser to the working committee, Lama has indulged in financial irregularities and bribery. The investigation committee formed on January 10 under the coordination of the Assistant Chief District Officer of Kathmandu, Madhav Prasad Dhungana, has pointed out that the working committee officials are not responsible for the care, service and overall organization management of the disabled people who have been taking shelter.

It was alleged that Chairman Lama was collecting funds by taking unfair advantage of those who came to seek shelter by covering up the loopholes where there is no clear legal provision to take money from those who came to take shelter. Raju Bhandari and Anju Bhandari, who are mentally challenged, submitted that they should put it into Akshaya Kosh at the rate of 15 lakhs per person to get the center's lifelong residential facility.

was deposited in the central account instead of being kept in the Akshaya Kosh . During the facilitation of allowing them to stay for life, the issue of Rs 10 lakh separately by President Lama as a commission came out. Lama had been claiming that the subject he had taken was not true. But after a strong protest about this, Lama took the help of the canteen manager appointed as a consultant to return the money . It is mentioned in the investigation committee's report that Rs 5 lakh was returned from Karki's bank account on October 22 and Rs 450,000 on October 30 to Raju and Anju's mother Tilka Bhandari.

It is said in the report that "In this way, Chairman Samden Lama took money from Raju Bhandari and Anju Bhandari for no purpose and returned the money after informing and complaining to the public". The investigation committee has recommended that President Lama should take necessary action from the next general meeting after conducting a real investigation regarding the amount taken to be kept in Akshaya Kosh and deposited in the organization's account and separately taking 10 lakhs .

Unrest at Khagendra Navjeevan Center

Similarly, it has been revealed that Karki is not only operating the canteen, but has been in the center for a long time as a businessperson and has influenced the decision of the center, other administrative and internal decisions in one way or another. As it is found that Karki has an involved and important role in the decision-making of the center, the investigation committee has recommended that he should be removed immediately by making a legal decision. People with disabilities who have been taking shelter have been strongly criticizing him by increasing the bill for the purchase of food, vegetables and other items needed at Navjivan Kendra, saying that he is directly involved in financial embezzlement and abuse.

The investigation committee has raised questions about the chairmanship of Lama. According to Navjeevan Kendra, one has to get lifetime membership to become president. Such membership should be obtained from the Kathmandu district branch of the Nepal Disabled Association . He has not granted life membership to any person since 2075. On 14th July 2077, Lama influenced the then office bearer of the Central Working Committee and took life membership with the intention of exploiting the center by occupying the position of chairman in the center. After this, Lama was elected president in Janakpur on 19 November 2079.

The meeting of the Central Working Committee was held 6 times in the last one year after Lama became the chairman. While studying the decision of that meeting, it is mentioned in the investigation report that the center was being exploited by not working for the rights and services of the disabled and working employees who were taking shelter in the institution . "It seems that no decision has been made regarding the rights, interests, service facilities of the disabled people associated with the organization, as well as the improvement of the shortcomings and weaknesses seen in the organization, the service facilities of the employees working in the organization," the report said, "The disabled person was not found to think about the rights and interests of the disabled people, but exploiting the organization and making money." It was found that only medium was made.'

The investigation committee is headed by Assistant Chief District Officer Dhungana, Police Inspector Rajesh Sah of Police Circle Buddh, Gokarneshwar Municipality Officer Goma Prasai, Central Member of Khagendra Navjeevan Center Yagya Prasad Upreti, Vidur Kumar Thapa on behalf of the Sangharsh Committee, Adarsh ​​Kshetri on behalf of the campaigner and Pushparaj Bhatt on behalf of the students of the center. It had seven members. The constituted investigation committee has pointed out 14 points of the center's shortcomings and submitted a report with 22 points for improvement on February 11 to the Chief District Officer of Kathmandu District Administration, Jitendra Basnet.

Lama has voluntarily fired staff at the center and hired new ones . It has been found that even when the study is in progress, an inquiry committee has been formed to determine the decision of such a working committee, and new employees have been appointed without any decision. The inquiry committee has recommended that the illegal appointment should be revoked, and if there is a question that he has not shown a positive role and activity in the development and progress of the center, President Lama should agree with other officials and act in confidence.

There is no clear provision even in the statute of the center about whether or not to take money from those who come to the center to take shelter . 6,000 per person per month has been regularly collected from 15 people with disabilities for using the center's ashram home. The working committee has been accused of not receiving assistance in food, sanitation, and health care in accordance with the amount paid, instead of feeding rotten and rotten food. When renting out the shutters in the building of the

center, according to the prevailing law, it is necessary to publish a notice and call for tenders, and give it to the person or firm who accepts the higher rent . However, from the meeting of the central working committee on December 6, 2078, it was found that the three-member rent determination and implementation committee under the coordination of Kubhashree Neupane of the center did not follow the procedure and directly contracted 38 people or firms for five years. The

center has more than 200 rooms, a building with shutters and a tower. The center has been operating its office from 6 of them. 33 rooms and 3 floors have been operated as a residence for disabled people. Some rooms have canteen/canteen. In the building named after the center, there is a 100-bed orthopedic hospital, SOS Balgram in 31 rooms, BIEA Foundation in 25 rooms, and a school from 1st to 12th standard in 22 rooms. A large hall and five rooms for community purposes and 27 shutters for commercial purposes. Of the 28-room old building, 8 are in use and others are dilapidated. 5 rooms are occupied by caretakers . There is a parking facility in the vacant land .

The center has been operating with the income of grants and rent received from the government and various supports. However, the inquiry committee has pointed out that transparent accounting of income and expenditure is not kept. Last year alone, 96 lakh 26 thousand 117 from the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens, 17 lakh 50 thousand from Orthopedic Hospital, 27 lakh 56 thousand 990 from Salt Trading, SOS Security Savings, 5 lakh 4 thousand from those who paid fees in institutions, rent and services The fee was 33 lakh 37 thousand 546 and income from Raju Bhandari and Anju Bhandari was Rs 30 lakh .

During the investigation, one of the mentally ill was found tied with a cloth rope. People with disabilities who came to get housing facilities by arbitrarily renting out their buildings are confined in one room in a cramped and overcrowded manner. Even though there is 68 ropani land in the name of the center, the land has been embezzled by giving the land to road with the connivance of the officials. "The then working committee and those involved in such construction should be brought under the scope of action and action should be taken to return the land to the central organization," the investigation committee has recommended . Due to the involvement of officials, the wall of Khagendra Special Education Mavi in ​​the center premises was destroyed and damaged without complying with legal procedures and legal standards. It has also been suggested that the officials should be made responsible for the financial burden of the school.

The investigation committee should make the grants, expenses and financial transactions received at Khagendra Navjivan Center transparent and public, identify and keep the physically and mentally disabled in the center separately, pay special attention to the cleanliness of the shelter, provide round-the-clock health and nursing services , has recommended that the advisor of the center should be nominated only after the decision of the working committee . It is suggested that the rent of the building and shutters of the center should be transparently deposited in the bank account and spent only by the decision of the organization, food, clothes and timely treatment, wheelchairs, walkers, walking sticks and auxiliary materials should be provided to those who are taking shelter. In order to improve the

center, it is said that the recommendations submitted by the investigation committee formed by the center itself on October 9, 2077 and November 5, 2080, and the suggestions given by the Women's Commission after the on-site monitoring on November 7, should be fully implemented. Pragya Jitendra Basnet said that after the latest investigation at the initiative of the Kathmandu District Administration Office, he has written to Navjivan Kendra to implement the report submitted to the Chief District Officer on February 16. "Many things need to be improved by the center itself, we have sent a letter after receiving the investigation report that the suggested improvements should be made by the organization in the first stage," Prazia Basnet said, "Let's see how action is taken, if not, we will take more action."

Khagendra Navjivan Center National Independent Party MP Dr. Tosima Karki has also drawn attention to the government. Speaking at the zero hour of the House of Representatives meeting on February 18th, MP Karki criticized that the Center should be free to restore 5.5 lakhs from one family and 6,000 per month from students, but 7/8 Kochers are kept in the same room . "Government should immediately form a rescue task force and take over the management of the center. The center we teach in the curriculum should really become a new life center," she said in the parliament. Lama, the president of

center, said that the problems and weaknesses pointed out by the investigation committee are being discussed in the meeting of the working committee. "The meeting is going on on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the squeeze has not come out as to what to do," he said. Chairman Lama said that the meeting of the working committee is being held to address the questions pointed out by the inquiry committee.

Nepal Apang Sangh Khagendra Navjivan Kendra is the oldest social organization in Nepal working in the field of disability. The center was established in the year 2026 on the initiative of the late Khagendra Bahadur Basnet. The center has 6 branch offices in Jhapa, Dhanusha, Kathmandu, Dang, Banke and Dhangadhi. 94 people with disabilities including 52 people who are receiving residential rehabilitation services on the recommendation of the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens, 15 people who are living by paying partial fees, 14 people who have been receiving rehabilitation services for a long time, 4 people who are recommended by Gokarneshwar municipality and 9 people with mental disabilities. are taking shelter .