"At least if you had citizenship, you would have received an allowance, you would have had money to buy Okhti"

Looking at her physical condition, she seems to be entitled to the social security allowance given by the government . But due to lack of citizenship certificate, she has not been able to enjoy this facility .

There are 10/12 houses on the southeast side of the Bandarmude river from Vasantpur market, the center of Madi municipality in the southern part of Chitwan. Arjun Bahadur Gurung and his two brothers who own Pahadghar Kaski in Shivrajpur in Ward-6 have 2.5 bigha of land. At the bottom of the said land is the Ailani land of river Ukas . It is the land of Ailani in the last part of our number. But we have built a house for those who are wandering around because there is no land elsewhere,' said Arjun Bahadur.

Ramrati and her son's family lives in a hut built in Ailani. A thatched roof leaks and becomes unhealthy . Due to being near the river, there is also the fear and danger of snakes along with the fear of wild boars.

It has been five years since Arjun Bahadur gave land and built a house. Therefore, there is no solution to the problem of whether or not red parts will come at a declining age. However, he hopes that at least if he had citizenship, he would have received an allowance, and he would have had money to buy Okhti. Her husband Thagai Mahato has passed away. Thagai used to live in Padampur in Chitwan. Even there they did not have land, they used to work in other people's houses. In this connection, cheating and Ramrati's marriage took place. Ramrati's parents were not . Thagai tried to make his wife's citizenship in 2030 as well. But he didn't try any more after he said that the parents' citizenship is also needed.

"When I was young, I didn't have parents, where to look for citizenship," said Ramrati. Despite not having citizenship, the work continued. But now it is not necessary to have citizenship in various jobs. There was nothing else, but if you had citizenship, you would get an allowance. Medicines would have been spent,' said Ramrati's son Rameshwar.

The settlement of Padampur is within the Chitwan Park, so the government moved it to a new place. Thagai also went to a new place . But there was no newness in his life. After not getting land, he wandered and came to Madi. Sometimes he spent his life in Madi changing places, sometimes building a camp.

Thagai's son Rameshwar is now stuck in the river along with his mother and his family. However, Rameshwar is suffering not only from his mother, but from his wife Sunita as well. 50-year-old Rameshwar married Sunita in 2052 Baisakh. Rameshwar used to go to different places in search of work due to the poor financial condition of the family.

He met Sunita at Triveni in Nawalparasi. I met him when I went to work in a hotel in Triveni Raninagar. I fell in love and got married because I said there is no one in Baa,' said Rameshwar. The impact of not being in Baa came at the time when Rameshwar made Sunita a citizen. Same situation as mother Ramrati's happened to Sunita. Without the evidence of Maiti, even the recommendation of citizenship is not available, Sunita does not remember who Maiti is, where she is, like her mother-in-law.

_{Janui Mahato along with her husband Dilliram in her padre.}

Ramratika's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are in trouble for citizenship. Likewise, everyone living in the village has their own problems and complaints. However, lack of clean drinking water is a common problem there. Jeevan Darai, who had no land, used to live in Chormara of Nawalparasi. After raising a settlement from there, he came to Ailani in Madi Pauli and stayed. Nine years ago, Pali's house was swept away by the flood. Then he wandered from place to place. He has been living as a neighbor of Rameshwar for five years.

'The land to make a dam for the flow has been found . But there are many other problems. There is no clean drinking water here," Jeevan said. Among the 10 houses there are four chapakal . But the water of Chapakal is not good . The vessels holding water are red like rust.

'Washed clothes get dirtier . Even after filtering it remains smooth . How to drink such water, how to cook food?' Jeevan said. Therefore, they carry a vessel to get water and go to another's house three/four hundred meters away. It is not difficult to go there and carry water. But he narrates the life of being hesitant to fetch water from someone else's house .

In those houses, there is no tap water, but water comes from the pipe. They say that life will be easier if they bring a water pipe to their village. There is also a problem with electricity. Two out of 10 houses have turned on electricity by hanging a wire from 180 meters away. Life has shown that no one else has the financial capacity to bring electricity from beyond that. Nimek is a place where those who work and raise their families live. "Not everyone has the ability to light a lamp by hanging a wire from a distance," he said.

_{between mother-in-law and husband Sunita Mardaniya Tharu .}

In order to get a certificate of citizenship, a married woman must submit proof of marriage. In order to get the citizenship of the descendant, the citizenship and proof of the descendant of the mother must be submitted. If you have married a foreigner, there is a rule that you have to submit documents such as parents' citizenship or Aadhaar card, ration card, and proof of the process of renouncing the citizenship of the relevant country to get the marital citizenship. "Married women cannot be recommended for citizenship without these two bases," said Madi-6 Ward President Dipendra Paudel.

Ward President Poudel says that there are 15 people in the ward who cannot collect the prescribed documents for citizenship recommendation. Most of which are women . Janui Mahato of Ward 6 is also facing problems of citizenship, red supplies and clean drinking water. Janui was born in the old Tharu settlement on the banks of the Rauteni river in the east of Basantpur Bazar.

He has no idea how old he is. She says she is 50 . His father passed away when he was young, and his mother also passed away while he was not growing up well. Janui came to live with her brother Chudamani in Ailani land where her parents were living.

_{The landless settlement on Bandurmude river. Photos : Ramesh Kumar Paudel/Kantipur}

Even after marrying Dilliram Mahato from Amrauli, another village in Madi, Janui did not leave the land. But while her husband and three Santals got citizenship, Janui remains stateless. "They say take the citizenship of their parents, we don't know whether they have taken citizenship or not." Not even mine, not even my brother's, Janui said. The land where he was born is still Ailani .

In the stream buried next to the house, the same dirty water comes out that is not suitable for drinking, cooking, washing clothes and washing clothes. She says that providing a stream with clean water will be a big help. But except during the election, no one will listen to him properly . Janui and her husband Dilliram have been working as daily wages to make small cement poles and blocks.

Dilliram has been a bit unwell for two months. He underwent surgery last week due to back injury. He is in the dilemma of not being able to work well. "Nowadays citizenship is being sought in many places". To get citizenship, I first went to the village twice, even when the team came, I went once. If it doesn't work, I don't try any more . Now, how can we work without citizenship,' Dilliram lamented.

Ramrati, Sunita and Janui said that no one came to them with the citizenship problem. They must have gone before, it is a matter of looking for paper evidence. You may have been staying like this lately because of lack of energy. How to resolve such problems?' said the ward president Paudel. He said that the ward office is taking initiatives for the problems of electricity and drinking water.