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It has been found that a wall is being built in the temple by cutting the road of the Dalit settlement in Thalha located in Bishnupur rural municipality-4 of Siraha. A wall is being built in the Durga temple in the village to block the movement of the neighboring Dalit settlement.
A compound wall and gate are being constructed at Durga Temple through the Consumer Committee from Tourism Development Office, Lahan with a budget of 50 lakhs of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism. According to Birendra Yadav, chairman of the consumer committee, this work has been going on for a week and a half.
There was a wide road between the Dalit settlement and the temple. Residents of this settlement used to come and go through this road. However, the temple wall is being constructed leaving only 6 feet of land so that it is very narrow from the middle of the road.
Similarly, towards the west side of the Durga temple is the house of Chaudhary Mahara and Ramekwal Mahara . To go to the main bota of this settlement, you have to go through the road in front of their house . However, Ram Ekwal has been enjoying the land from the place where the temple wall was built to the house. He claims that the land is his own.
'The land in front of my house is my private, there is no question of building a wall on public land and giving a road through private land, this is for the leaders of the village to think about themselves,' he said, 'We have been treated as poor Dalits here.'
There are 10 families of Chamar community living here. Out of this, especially 6 Dalit families have been completely affected. After the construction of the temple wall, the exit from the house of local Ramshankar Mahara, Shivu Mahara, Shivram Mahara, Jayanand Mahara, Sanjay Mahara and Budhram Mahara will be closed.
On June 13, while digging a hole for the construction of the wall, the local Dalit community tried to stop it. However, the local Arun Mahara said that the police had to stop them.
"We tried to stop it when the big boys here tried to please us, but they called the police and dug a hole by force," he said to Kantipur, "No one listened to us, the poor poor people, no matter how much we pleaded."
The local poet Mahara is saddened by the fact that the wall is being built in the temple by thinking of them as untouchable. "We Dalits are weak, that's why this is being done to us," she said, "if it wasn't for the Dalits and the weak, perhaps today would not have come."
Local 70-year-old Bhogen Sah, one of the leaders of the wall construction, argued that the Dalit family was going to protect the temple by building a wall because they were littering. Ward president Rambabu Yadav said that the temple's land is being measured and the wall is being constructed.
There is 6-7 feet land of village block temple and he says that a road of up to 12 feet can be made. However, he could not give a clear answer regarding the problem of the road on the west side of the temple. When asked whether the road was blocked, he said, "We will solve the problem slowly".
