The streets and villages have also been cleaned by placing garbage collection buckets in every house. The municipality has upgraded the old health post in this ward to a municipal hospital, and the deserted market has become a bustling place.
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With the active participation of locals, the old problems of cleanliness and road access in the village have started to disappear. This scene is visible when reaching Harichaur Bazaar of Galkot Municipality-5. The paths leading here were slippery and difficult. The empty houses were getting dilapidated. There were potholes on the road. The ‘Galkot Durbar’ of the Chaubise State was also getting dilapidated.
Now, the historical palace has been preserved and painted. Various plans are also being aimed at making this palace a tourist destination. The old problem has been eliminated in a short time since the ward started a campaign to make Harichaur village completely clean, have access to pure drinking water, and make it neat.
Now, the difficult road in this market has been sloped. A concrete bridge has been built at a cost of 2.5 million in partnership with the locals and the ward. The border between pedestrians and vehicles has been drawn with yellow paint on the road. Concrete footpaths have been built in places where vehicles cannot move. The roads and villages have also been cleaned by placing garbage collection buckets in every house. The municipality has upgraded the old health post of this ward to a municipal hospital, and the deserted market has become a bustling place.
More than 150 patients come here for treatment daily. Local Yogesh Bhandari said that business in the anonymous market has also started growing as patients from neighboring municipalities and districts have also started coming here for treatment since it is located near the Mid-Hill Highway. People from villages like Tarakhola and Bhujunge have started moving into the vacant houses.
They have decorated the damaged windows and doors and are making them neat. This change has come after the municipality started cleaning the old market and allocating budget at the ward and municipal levels to improve the dilapidated roads. The construction of a small irrigation project in Khahare River in Harichour has also brought the river's floods and landslides under control. The construction of two concrete bridges in Khahare with the ward's budget has also removed the suffering of rain. The road from Harichour Bazaar to Teuwa via Kauleni is being paved.
With the completion of this road, tourists have also started visiting the sculpture project in Teuwa. In 2076, sculptures made by sculptors from 10 countries, including Nepal, were installed here. A hiking trail to an 11,000-foot high mountain (Ghumte) has also been built through Teuwa. A fair is held in Ghumte every New Year and on Baisakh Purnima. There are many people who climb Ghumte at other times as well. Chairman Pawan Hamal said that when the budget received by the ward was properly utilized, the Harichour Bazaar and the ward itself looked neat.
‘We have built the infrastructure by adding the labor of the locals to the budget,’ he said, ‘If the investment and work are done according to the estimate, all the plans become successful.’ Ward Chairman Hamal himself is also engaged in work such as carrying stones, mixing cement and building roads. Chief Administrative Officer Dambar GC said that the quality of the work done is increasing as the ward fully follows cost sharing.
Local Tulsi Niure said that it is easy to make development plans here as all the places in the ward can be reached after traveling 5 km from the Mid-Hill Highway. Since the road from Hatiya to Tarakhola also passes through Harichour Bazaar, the main road has been blacktopped from the state government's budget. The internal roads of the market have been mobilized from the ward and city budget.
'After the hospital was built, the locals have also supported the development by donating their labor,' Hamal said, 'The goal is to make the ward excellent in cleanliness as well.' He said that most of the houses in this ward have reached clean drinking water under the One House One Tap campaign. Hamal said that since the water source and the height of the settlement in Teuwa do not match, preparations have been made to distribute it through lifts in some houses. Currently, a tank has been constructed here and collective taps have been built. He said that the problem of drinking water will also be eliminated after taps are built in only a few houses in Shraddakhet and Teuwa.
A playground and a city-level child-friendly park have also been built under the leadership of the ward. Those living abroad have also supported the construction of other infrastructure, including ambulances, in the hospital. An eye treatment center has also been built with the help of locals living in Japan. In the current fiscal year, Galkot Municipality has allocated a budget of 82 million rupees for infrastructure. Hamal said that small projects at the ward level have been allocated at the rate of 100,000 to 300,000 rupees.
Among the old markets, Narethanti in Ward No. 2, Hatiya Bazaar in Ward No. 3, Kharuwa in Ward No. 4, Kandebas in Ward No. 8, and Banskhola Bazaar in Ward No. 9 have also been cleaned and made neat. The roads in all the old markets have been blacktopped, and the chairman of Ward No. 4, Bal Bahadur Khatri, said that the cleaning made them worth visiting. The city also has a policy of connecting the blacktop road to the place where the ward office is located. Among them, Pandabakhani in Ward No. 10 and Righa in Ward No. 11 are yet to be connected by blacktop roads. Since the distances between these wards are far, work is being done through strategic roads. Roads under construction have not been completed due to problems with government payments.
