As the dispute over the location of the center remains unresolved, Chingad Rural Municipality employees have had to go to Ward 5 to work and Ward 2 to attend the municipal office.
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Due to the dispute over the center of the municipality, employees of Chingad Rural Municipality in Surkhet have to walk 6 kilometers to different offices for work and attendance. The municipality has been providing services from Avalching in Ward 5. Employees have to go to Rajikuna in Ward 2 for attendance.
The distance between these two offices is 6 kilometers. Employees have to go to Rajikuna for attendance every day and Avalching to work.
Before reaching the center of the municipality, all employees have to reach the assembly hall of the municipality in Rajikuna and attend. The daily life of about 45 employees working in the municipality is spent like this. Employees say that attending on one side and going to work on the other side is inconvenient and affecting their regular work.
This problem arose due to the dispute over the municipality center. A few months after the local level elections in 2074, the executive meeting decided to designate Pungkhet in Ward 2 as the center. Ten locals from the then vice-chairman of the rural municipality, Manmaya Acharya, filed a case in the Supreme Court against the majority decision. The Supreme Court, giving an interim order in their case, did not implement this decision for the time being and ordered them to work from the previous location. The case is pending in the Constitutional Bench. This year, the winter village assembly again decided to work from Rajikuna in Ward 2. There is a community building here. Again, after the same group filed a contempt case in the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court has issued a 'stay order' to run from the previous location.
Rural Municipality Chairman Bodhvikram GC works from Rajikuna in Ward 2. Chairman GC said that 5 out of the 6 wards agreed to Rajikuna and that residents of Ward 5 obstructed the move last month when preparations were being made to move the center.
Pabitra Bishwakarma, the head of the municipality's health department, said that after arriving at the assembly hall in Ward 2 in the morning, she walked 6 kilometers uphill to the office in Ward 5 to work. 'It is very inconvenient for employees who do not have transportation to go up and down,' she said. 'It takes up to an hour to come and go.'
Meanwhile, Jit Bahadur Rana, a local and politician from Ward 5, Awalching, where the current municipal center is located, said that since the municipal center has been in Awalching since the past, it cannot be accepted in another ward. 'There have been many discussions on the issue of the municipal center. We are not in favor of moving it elsewhere. The final decision of the Supreme Court has not yet come,' he said. A local said that the dispute could not be resolved due to the interests of the people's representatives and the locals. According to him, the competition to pull the municipal center has not been able to come to an agreement easily.
