Madhyapahari (Pushpalal) Lokmarg's broad road. From where the ward office of Rainas Municipality-8 of Lamjung is within 50/60 meters. Along with the ward office at Pangrephant in Tarkughat, there is also a reconciliation center. A square has also been arranged for senior citizens to rest.
Citizens with disabilities have to be carried in wheelchairs to reach that place. An example is 50-year-old Gopal Olia of Rainas Nagpalika 8 Harrabot. Due to the road of the ward office, many physically challenged citizens like him have to suffer. Their pain has been going on for years. Since it is difficult to go to the ward office, many people take alternative options.
Rural disabled society and social development office Lamjung said to distribute aid materials to the disabled, Olia, who came to get cheers, reached the ward office. This scene is teasing the local government. We should be ashamed,' complained Noor Muhammad Mian, principal of Veer Bhakti Mavi Tarqughat.
A bridge has been constructed along the road leading to the ward office from the side of Madhyapahari Lokmarg. There is a narrow gorge along the hill. On the right is a rice paddy field. On the left side, there is a farm of plastic tunnels and the enclosure of the land occupied by the farm. According to Prakash Chiluwal, President of Rural Handicapped Society Nepal Rainas, citizens with disabilities have a problem in taking public services.
It is said that there should be 3 meters only around the tower. There is not even one meter between the bridge and the road," he said. Head of Social Development Office, Mitakumari Thapa, said that the first point of contact for citizens with disabilities is the local level, the ward office. She said that it is a matter of great concern that it is difficult for citizens with disabilities to get services from the ward office.
'Since the road was not easy, we also kept the aid materials provided in a shop on the main road. It was distributed later," she said. According to the ward chairman Krishna Bahadur Ranabhat, 3 lakh budget was allocated for the construction of the road to the ward office last financial year.
He said that after many attempts were made to provide land with the landowners of the left and right, but they were not successful, the roof (truss) of the ward office building was put up with the money. "We tried to make a road by allocating the budget. Because the landowners did not agree, we were forced to spend the budget elsewhere. We are sad for this," he said.
Even though it is an accessible area, since the road could not be made easy, he said that the national identity card and other service facilities provided by the ward office will be delivered to the doorsteps of the disabled and senior citizens.
Rainas Municipality Deputy Chief Pushparaj Khanal said that the ward offices are the closest government to the people and the ward offices are in the process of becoming disabled friendly. According to him, old buildings and roads leading to those buildings are at risk. The wards where the new offices are built are disabled-friendly, the roads leading to those offices have also been built. The old, previously village buildings are in trouble, we are engaged in building disability-friendly structures as much as possible.'
According to him, now ward no. There is some problem in 9 and 10. Ward no. He admitted that although the budget has been allocated twice for the road leading to the 8th ward office building, they have not been able to achieve success in the construction of the road.
'We have been trying since we arrived, but we have not finished. The landowners have come to a sort of agreement after we said either give the land or we will move the ward office. They will definitely agree," he said.
