Dhankuta Municipality has warned 23 cooperatives that do not submit details of audit and general meeting. The municipality has given a deadline of 15 days with a final warning to the subordinate cooperatives for not providing the details within the stipulated period.

Dashrath Rai, the chief administrative officer of the municipality, said that if the municipality does not provide the details requested by the municipality, the process of liquidation will be initiated. In sub-section 2 of section 28 of Dhankuta Municipality Cooperative Act 2075, it is mentioned that the general meeting must be convened within 6 months from the date of end of the financial year.

Similarly, in subsection 1 of section 52 of the Act, it is mentioned that documents including audit and annual report must be submitted within 3 months of the end of the financial year. However, Rai said that 23 cooperatives did not act according to the rules within the stipulated period and were given a final warning. He said, 'If the details are not provided within the specified time limit, the organization will be terminated.'

Similarly, the municipality said that there are Women Empowerment Savings and Loan Cooperative, Pashupati Women Savings and Loan Cooperative, Lakshmi Savings and Loan, Hille Savings and Loan, Swavalamban Multipurpose Cooperative, Anina Multipurpose Cooperative, Dairy Producer Cooperative, Pathibhara Dairy, Arun Consumers, Sports Cooperative. Similarly, there are Herbs Production Processing and Tourism Agricultural Cooperative, Guthi Agricultural Cooperative, Margapokhari Agricultural Cooperative, Sinhdevi Agricultural Cooperative, Nebla Agricultural Cooperative, Our Agricultural Cooperative, Panchkanya Agricultural Cooperative, Satatele Gufa Agricultural Cooperative. 

The municipality has said that if the details are not provided within the specified time, the process of canceling the registration of the organization will be initiated according to subsection 3 of section 66 of the Cooperative Act, 2075. Earlier, a complaint was also filed in the municipality that three cooperatives had embezzled more than 4.5 crores from around 100 savers. The organization has claimed that it has started refunding the money of the savers. Among the cooperative organizations that have received complaints, our agricultural cooperative in Dhankuta-6 has been found to have embezzled the most amount. According to the municipality, 40 million 29 lakhs 24 thousand 716 rupees of more than 60 savers of the organization have not been returned. 

Similarly, a complaint has also been filed in the name of Lokendra Khadka, president of Samriddhi Savings and Loan Cooperative located in Dhankuta-6. The said organization has not returned the amount of 696 thousand 125 of 18 savers. It has been claimed that Ganesh Pokhrel, the chairman of Arun Consumer Cooperative in Dhankuta Municipality 1, embezzled the savings and property of the cooperative and used the savings himself to cause harm to the organization. A letter was sent to the police saying that the persons involved have misappropriated the money of savers by violating section 79 of the Cooperative Act of Dhankuta Municipality 2075.