The rural municipality has provided sleeping bags to the police of Lelep Ghunsa, Faktanglung Rural Municipality-6, located at an altitude of 3,100 meters.

Village executive member Mingmadandu Sherpa informed that the police have been provided sleeping bags for warmth as they have to stay in the village, which is very cold in Poush and Magh.

Rural Municipality Chairman Rajan Limbu informed that the sleeping bags provided by the municipality are designed to provide warmth in temperatures down to minus 10 degrees. ‘We had entered the police post when we went to Ghunsa. It was very difficult to cover and bed,’ said Rural Municipality Chairman Limbu, ‘We ordered them from Kathmandu and started making them.’ He said that it cost seven thousand rupees to make one sleeping bag.

Five sleeping bags were provided on Tuesday through executive member Serap Sherpa. There is a border police post, an armed police base camp and an area police office in Ghunsa at an altitude of 3,100 meters in Olangchungola, Faktanglung Rural Municipality.

Although there is a post of 11, five people are usually staying there, Chairman Limbu said, based on information that five people usually stay there and because he saw them there during monitoring. Mingmadandu says that these sleeping bags are provided to be left at the post after the police personnel are transferred.

Ghunsa, which can be reached in only three days from the district headquarters, has to be walked for two days. Since the transportation cost is high if you have to walk or carry it, those who live temporarily do not like to carry a lot of luggage. A security guard said, ‘What can I do if I want to? It is difficult to carry my luggage when I return after 6 months.’ Mingmadandu said that this time the sleeping bags were sent directly from Kathmandu to Ghunsa to collect the tourists.