With the initiative of social activist Prakash Tharu and the leadership of Armed Police Force No. 13 Battalion Headquarters, Parsa, Chhimi Devi's pucca house has been built on about one and a half acres of land. The one-room house has a zinc roof. All the family members can sleep comfortably.
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Chhimi Devi Dom, 40, of Birgunj-22 Maniyari, was overjoyed on Sunday. Her dream of living in a concrete house has come true after she got a newly constructed house under the leadership of Armed Police No. 13 Battalion Headquarters Parsa.
Her family, who were previously sheltering under a torn tarpaulin, are now able to live in a concrete house. After the death of her husband Chokat Dom five years ago and the death of a son soon after, the burden of a family of four, including three children, is on her shoulders. She earns a monthly salary of Rs 3,000 by cleaning a local boarding school. That is her monthly income.
There is four acres of ancestral land. But there was no decent house to hide her head on that land. She and her children had been sleeping in a house made of torn tarpaulin and sheets.
‘It was difficult to hide my head in a house that was cold in winter and water leaked in the rain,’ said Chhimi, ‘but now I have a bed with a wide bed that can accommodate all the children.’ There is also a fan in the living room of the house. Now, she said, the compulsion to spend the night sweating in the heat has also come to an end.
Chhimi Devi’s pucca house was built on about one and a half acres of land with the initiative of social activist Prakash Tharu and the Armed Police No. 13 Battalion Headquarters, Parsa. The one-room house has a zinc roof. All the family members can sleep comfortably.
Various units of the Armed Police in the district have provided construction materials for the construction of the house. Armed Police personnel have donated their labor. Local donors have provided construction materials and helped in every way possible. ‘It has been possible to build a pucca house for a very poor Dom family by collecting support from all sections of the society,’ says SP Mohan Bahadur Chhetri, Chief of Armed Police Parsa. ‘We have been playing an active role in such social works under the Armed Police’s Border Residents Program.’ SP Chhetri says that such programs will directly benefit the local Dalit poor community living on the border and will also reduce the distance between the Armed Police and the border residents. The cost of building the house is around Rs 175,000.
Social activist Prakash Tharu says that the very poor Chhimidevi has been suffering from the lack of a suitable house for a long time, and getting a free house has brought great relief to her pain. ‘A poor widow did not have a proper roof to hide her and her children’s heads,’ he said. ‘Now that the roof has been arranged, we are now looking for work that will provide her with enough food for two meals, if that is enough, her pain will be reduced to a great extent.’
