Chhuldim did not receive citizenship until she was 66 years old after her parents died when she was young. Her sons, aged 36 and 23, also did not receive citizenship because their husbands had died. They also received citizenship along with their mother.
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Chhuldim Sangmo Gurung of Simen, Dolpobuddha Rural Municipality-6, Upper Dolpa, has received citizenship along with her two sons at the age of 66. She was stateless until the age of 66. On Thursday, Chief District Officer Bhimraj Koirala granted citizenship to her along with her two sons, even on a day off.
Granting citizenship Chief District Officer Koirala said that it is very sad that despite being a Nepali citizen for 66 years, he was unable to complete the process and became a stateless person. He says, ‘I apologize as a representative of the state and government in this matter. I am very happy to grant citizenship to three of them. That is why I stayed in the office all day on my holiday and granted citizenship.’
‘I hear that there are many citizens in Upper Dolpa who have not obtained citizenship. As long as I live in Dolpa, I will try to grant citizenship to all Nepali citizens according to the rules,’ he added. Chuldim has not received citizenship to this day after her parents passed away when she was young.
Pradya Koirala said that her sister received citizenship and that she was granted citizenship on the basis of the identification of locals including rural municipality chairperson Karma Choibel Gurung, vice-chairperson Pemma Dharke Gurung and ward chairperson Nurbu Gurung. Due to the mother's lack of citizenship, her eldest son Dawa Tshering Gurung, aged 36, and her youngest son Tshering Gurung, aged 23, obtained citizenship with their mother only today.
Chhuldim's husband has passed away. Due to not receiving citizenship, she had to be deprived of the old-age allowance and single woman's allowance provided by the state for 6 years. Not only that, but since her mother did not receive citizenship, she did not receive citizenship and since she did not receive citizenship, her three children and one of her brother's children also did not receive citizenship, so the eldest son Dawa Tshering expressed happiness that CDO Koirala granted her citizenship.
He said that he obtained citizenship thanks to the efforts of the rural municipality's people's representatives and the district administrator after the entire family was forced to become stateless. 'Due to not having her citizenship, my daughter's birth certificate was not even made. Due to which she also had problems enrolling in school. Her daughter also stopped receiving the midday meal provided by the government. Not only that, I was not even able to sit on the consumer committee formed in the village,' said Dawa Tshiring, the youngest son of Chhuldim.
He works as a mule transporter. It takes up to two weeks for an upper-class Dolpali to come to the district headquarters and return to get citizenship, and he has to spend up to 50,000 rupees for it. Due to this, many ordinary people are deprived of citizenship and government facilities, said Ward Chairman Nurbu Gurung.
