Sita Darzi cleaning public toilets on the highway at Butwal intersection. Pitambar Bhattarai, who sells fruits to the passengers of the east-west bus. Vishnu Pandey selling tea since morning. The character is the one who was collecting savings in the Supreme Cooperative in Butwal for the future of his children after giving up all his desires. But the Gurkha Media Network was run on their hard earned money. How will the money transferred to the private company be returned? About 10,000 savers are stuck as the question remains unanswered.

Butwal-10 Buddhanagar's 50-year-old Sita Darji walks from her home at 4 a.m. every day for half an hour to reach the public toilet on the highway at the crossroads. She cleans toilets for highway passengers. This is his daily life for 21 years. 

Sita, who lost her husband 7 years ago, raised a son and a daughter with the earnings of the toilet. Now the daughter is married and the son is also employed abroad. ``Three lakh rupees are stuck in Supreme,'' she lamented.

Since the stone surgery a month ago, my daughter comes to clean the toilet in the morning. She sends her daughter home after arriving at 9 in the morning and cleans till 10 at night. "Since I fell ill, my daughter opens the toilet in the morning," Sita said, "I watch till 10 o'clock at night." This is the toilet, so the family has been able to support themselves by suffering.' According to Sita, she earns around 1,000 per day, with that money she has to buy 4/5 bottles of phenol, herpic, acid etc. for cleaning the toilet. 

Sita Darji, Rupande

when what happens, when what? Spending continues. Suffering from high blood pressure and cholesterol, she went to New Delhi, India a month ago and underwent surgery. "During the oppression, her earnings were not enough," she said, "70,000 debts."  Even during

treatment, Sita did not have to carry the burden of debt. However, the Supreme Savings and Loan Cooperative, whose head office is 200 meters west of the toilet, confiscated his savings. She became a member of Supreme 9 years ago.

'I used to collect 4-500 every day,' she said, 'Now I found out that there is no one to take care of me, despite the savings I had saved in the cooperative.' Being demolished in order. What will you do for a living after the toilet is broken? I am worried," she said.

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Pitambar Bhattarai of Gulmi's Madane Rural Municipality-3 runs every morning at the highway intersection, sometimes behind cars stopped on the east side, sometimes around cars stopped on the west side. Bhattarai is running on the highway till 8 pm. They show the bunch of grapes in their hands and ask the passengers to buy them. "I follow the car and sell fruits," Bhattarai said, "The old woman also comes to help on free days." 

Pitambar Bhattarai, Gulmi

It has been five years since he started living in Butwal's Milanchowk paying a monthly rent of Rs.6,000. Before that he was in India for employment. He came back to run a small business. After coming to Butwal, he operated a snack shop for one and a half years. Then they put fruits in the basket and started dancing. "After the sub-metropolis took away the carts, I started selling them like this," he said. He now follows the bus to sell seasonal fruits. Bhattarai family has a wife, son and daughter. The son is preparing to appear for the 12th standard exam, while the daughter is studying in the 6th standard. Five years ago, he opened a lunch shop at a cost of three lakhs. At the same time, Supreme's employees were tempted to get high interest rates, so they started saving. "We started collecting 2/300 a day in Supreme," he said. "I didn't know that this cooperative was like this, I didn't think that people's money was taken to a private company. Now the amount has been lost, he says that now the family is suffering. The children's education expenses have increased, but it is not sure whether the money will be refunded or not.

A year ago, when he got the information that the amount was sunk, he fell off the cliff. He said, "Those who came rushing to collect savings then, are not found even now," he said. They say, 'somehow there is no happiness, even the municipality that has taken away the cart sometimes takes away the same poka too.' He has been selling tea in a tent in Butwal for 10 years. He is also a victim of Supreme Cooperative. He said that even though the local police rushed from Butwal to the district administration to recover the lost money, the hope of getting it back is dead. He said, "Slogans were raised on the streets to get back the savings, we were tired of running around, there was no other way." 

Bishnu Pandey, Arghakhanchi

Pandey has been depositing the money from the sale of land in Supreme Cooperative. "I came to the shop and trusted him," he said. Also, I took the money collected by washing dishes in the tea shop and added it there," he said, "Dakshina, which was received by my daughter so far, was also collected there. After all, 13 lakh 27 thousand have been saved, but the money has been embezzled.''

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One hundred meters on the east side of the highway intersection, on the right and left side of the road, there are savers who have suffered from Supreme Cooperative, from those who trade in carts to those who have shops at home. Narayan Kharel, a local fruit trader, said that not only the small businessmen who are running business here, but also those who make a living by roasting corn, polishing shoes, and selling fruits and tea have all suffered from Supreme. He said, "In the beginning, they cheated by paying a lot of interest, then when the savings increased, there was a problem of not returning them." He said that there was unrest in the homes of many people after the amount they had collected for their children got stuck in winter and summer due to road dust and car fumes. He said that while the victims were protesting demanding action against those who embezzled their savings, the hope of getting justice died after the accused of embezzlement was released on bail by order of the district court. 

Kharel said, "Even if money is stolen, how can justice be done if a president is imprisoned." He said that one year, the cooperative victim took the manager Sagar KC into custody and took him to the district administration. He said that the frustration increased when the voice of the victim was not heard. "We have taken the names of the victims to where and where," he said, "hearing does not come from anywhere." Out of 8,000 savers of Butwal's Supreme Savings and Credit Cooperative, 1,831 people have filed a complaint with the police.

Banke's Nepalgunj sub-metropolitan-11 Yamuna Gaudel, who is running a lunch shop in front of Bestern Hospital, has been calling the police and administration for a year to demand the return of 30,000 rupees deposited in the Equality Savings and Loan Cooperative. 

"We lost the money we earned by charging rent and saving it in the cooperative," Gaudel said. Madhav Prasad Belbase, who runs a grocery store in Gharbari village, said that he was unable to get back the five lakh rupees he had deposited in the Equality Cooperative and his business was affected and he was having trouble making a living. The signboard has also been removed due to the fact that it has an office at Berstanmall on Surkhet Road. Prakash Bhandari, who runs a food supplier in Nepalganj, alleged that he could not get back his savings due to the police's non-cooperation. He also has 180,000 savings in this cooperative. "When the owner of the cooperative came to Banke with GB Rai, the police on the contrary gave us protection, they returned us with an assurance," said Bhandari, "Now that the Home Minister has also been arrested, we are hoping that we will get justice." We are going to prove how true he is.' The police had submitted a report to the public prosecutor's office last Sunday, making 32 people involved in embezzlement as defendants. Three months ago, the police informed those who could not get their savings back from Samana Cooperative to file a complaint and obtained an arrest warrant from the court against 9 people, including the owner GB.

Banke Police Spokesperson DSP Narayan Dangi said that 47 million 80 thousand rupees have been reported in the complaint filed by 116 people so far for the investigation of the crime case related to fraud in Samala Cooperative. Earlier, the statement of Kumar Ramtel, the secretary of this cooperative, who was arrested on charges of misappropriating the savings of Pokhara's Suryadarshan Cooperative, has also been submitted to the Public Prosecutor's Office along with the report. DSP Dangi said, "We are trying to arrest the director and manager, we have sent the statement of the secretary of the board of directors." After misappropriating the money of the savers, the owner of the cooperative absconded and the employees stopped being found in the office, so the savers had to wander for the money back. They have been running with the police and administration for months because they have not been able to get back the money they had saved up to Rs 100 or 200. After sinking his funds, he had to seek loans for daily living and treatment.