Pritam Surkheti's house, built under the Janata Awas Program in Tilkechaur, Tapli Rural Municipality-5, is also in a dilapidated state. His house, built under the Janata Awas Program, has also fallen into a dilapidated state after all his family members left the village and moved to the city.
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Ishwar Magrati of Aldanda, Tapli Rural Municipality-5 was included in the list of beneficiaries of the People's Housing Program. On the basis of being a member of a Dalit and disadvantaged community, the government built houses for four families from that village in 2077 BS under the People's Housing Program.
They built a neat 2-room house with zinc from the budget provided by the government in three installments of Rs 350,000 per family. But now all those houses are in a dilapidated state.
Less than a year after building the house, they and their families are in search of work, some in Kathmandu, some in Pokhara, various places in India and abroad.
Pritam Surkheti's house of Tapli Rural Municipality-5 Tilkechaur, built through the Janata Awas Program, is also in a dilapidated state. After all the family members left the village and moved to the city, his house built through the Janata Awas Program has also fallen into a dilapidated state. Since there is no employment opportunity in the village, they have been temporarily living in the urban area in search of work and are not in the mood to return to the village.
Min Bahadur Bishwakarma of Rautamai Rural Municipality-5 works as a wage laborer in Kathmandu. He has been living in Kathmandu with his family since before the 2079 BS local elections. Not only has his house been destroyed in the village, but his farmland has also become barren.
‘The government has built a house, but the income from the farmland is not enough to eat for a year. I came to Kathmandu to work as a wage laborer after monkeys destroyed the crops I had planted with hard work,’ he said.
The federal and provincial governments have been allocating budgets for programs targeting Dalits, the poor, the endangered and the most marginalized classes and communities listed on the National Dalit Commission. 
According to Surendra Prasad Shah, head of the Urban Development and Building Office, Biratnagar, 1,231 houses have been built in Udayapur through the Janata Awas program. He said that the Urban Development and Building Division Office, which was established to look after all eight local levels of Udayapur, has been providing services since the fiscal year 2075/076, but the responsibility of that office has now been given to Infrastructure Development. He said that the office has not kept records of the construction of houses and the final installment payment due to the lack of a monitoring mechanism.
‘Although the office has not monitored and assessed the effectiveness of the program, there have been more complaints that houses built in the hilly areas are unused than in the Terai/Madhes,’ he said. On Bhadra 24, during the Genji protest, protesters also set fire to the Urban Development and Building Biratnagar office, so the documents were burned and all the data was missing, he said.
He said that important documents were destroyed in the arson as the data/details were not kept on the office’s digital platform. According to him, all the materials in the office were burned during the Genji protest before the responsibility including documents was handed over to the Infrastructure Development Office.
