All children in the village are enrolled in school, pregnant women deliver at health facilities, and 54 percent of the ward's budget has been allocated to child-centered plans.
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Bharta, Shubhakalika Rural Municipality-2, has been declared a ward that has adopted child-friendly local governance. With this, Bharta has become the eighth ward in the district to adopt child-friendly local governance.
With the slogan 'Let's keep children's faces happy, child-friendly is the basis of prosperity', Ward No. 2 was declared a child-friendly local governance ward on Tuesday after completing 5 steps, 28 procedural steps and 51 indicators of child-friendly local governance.
The village was declared a child-friendly local governance ward through a formal program after all children were enrolled in school and had access to compulsory and basic education, and a complete birth registration and vaccination settlement was established, said Ward Chairman Man Bahadur Shahi.
Representatives of the district, including the district chief, government organizations including education, social development, and non-governmental organizations including KIRDAC, VIDECEF, Hurendek, public representatives, party leaders, and media personnel had reached Bharat. Children, parents, mother groups, Dhamijhankri, Panchebaja groups and other settlements in the village came to the meeting carrying placards and slogans.
Stating that the growth and development of children cannot be postponed, Deputy Chief of the District Coordination Committee Meena Rawat BK opined that all local levels should work to start child-friendly local governance from Kalikot.
Shubhakalika Rural Municipality has allocated 54 percent of the total budget this year for the education, health, protection and participation of children, said the Rural Municipality Chairman Govinda Prasad Acharya.
Shubhakalika-2 Ward has allocated 540,000 rupees for the children's sector this year, informed Sarita Khatri, Child Protection and Child Rights Governance Coordinator of Saha Yatra III. Chief District Officer Gokarna Raj Suyal said that the community has accepted the child-friendly declaration and it will remain a model village.
Congress leader Min Bahadur Bogati said that the municipality has taken the lead in implementing child-friendly local governance because if the local government is not child-friendly, the issues of children may be overlooked. Pregnant women here have been coming to the health institution for the past two years. Health facilitator Savita Shahi said that some of them had died prematurely while giving birth to children through the village midwife.
Civil society leader Khadananda Adhikari informed that two years ago, all school-age children were enrolled in schools and had access to compulsory basic education.
Ward member Durgnath Yogi said that the concept of child-friendly local governance has been adopted to create a child-friendly environment in the village, to end all forms of violence, discrimination and abuse against children, to formulate and implement child-centered policies and rules, to make child participation meaningful, and to build child-friendly physical infrastructure.
Children from various schools performed dances and Deuda dances at the child-friendly declaration meeting, and local women performed old Jhoda games, Deuda and Hudke. The ward also honored individuals and organizations active in declaring the ward child-friendly.
The ward is organizing children's gatherings to identify children's issues, conducting children's courts to address them, operating disability camps, and supporting children at risk, said Amrita Adhikari, head of the Women, Children and Senior Citizens Branch.
