The Himalayan Municipality is conducting an integrated camp in Kathmandu to provide services such as social security allowance renewal and biometrics.
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Most of the elderly people of Olangchungola, Phattanglung rural municipality-7 of Taplejung live in Kathmandu. They get their social security allowance from the ward office Olangchungola. As it is compatible with the banking process, the quarterly facility is taken from the bank in Kathmandu.
This year, National Identity Card and Biometric have been made mandatory for receiving Social Security Allowance. Most of them have already made their identity card at the district administration office, Taplejung. For Biometrics, the Ward President Cheten Sherpa Lama has reached Kathmandu, where the service is received, with materials including computers. He has been providing services by sitting in the Olangchung Social Welfare building located in the Buddhist settlement of Kathmandu.
There are patients who are taking medicine regularly, health check-ups should be done regularly, so we have reached there and served them who are forced to stay in Kathmandu - Cheten Sherpa Lama , Ward head , Phattanglung-7 Olangchungola According to the ward president Cheten, there are 52 people who receive social security allowance from this ward. 22 of them are in Kathmandu. Some of those in Kathmandu have a home in Buddh. Some are living on rent. All of them are patients who are taking regular medicine . Health check-ups should also be done regularly,' said the ward president Cheten, 'There is no facility for their health treatment in Olangchungola. To take the headquarters to Fungling, you have to carry it for two days . Now there are no people to bring them to the village. That's why they are forced to stay in Kathmandu.'
He said that even those who live in Kathmandu do not agree to move. Ward president Cheten claims that there are many people who die because of Olangchungola . "Some of them say that they would rather not take allowance than to migrate. They say they will go to the village but their health does not support them," Cheten said, "We have come to Kathmandu and served them." One secretary in the municipality has to look after several wards. He said that he himself went to Kathmandu to get the biometric done because he knows what the ward secretary does.
Even though the motor vehicle reached Olangchungola, the border area of China, after the onset of monsoon, the vehicle does not go up from Lelep. It takes a full day for those who can walk to reach Yang from Olangchungola . There are only two settlements in Paktanglung-7. The farthest Yangma has 11 houses and Olangchungola has 56 houses . In this ward, the ward president and members were elected as independent candidates by a unanimous decision.
Similarly, Khumbu Pasanglhamu Rural Municipality of Solukhumbu has also conducted an integrated camp at Chuchchepati in Kathmandu for urgent work including social security allowance renewal. Looking at the high Himalayas and the geographical difficulty, the municipality has gone to serve the citizens in Kathmandu, said Mingachiri Sherpa, chairman of the rural municipality. Chief Administrative Officer Navraj Gautam informed that 662 people served in the
camp. According to him, the camp has been organized in Kathmandu targeting the locals living in Kathmandu due to constraints such as tourism, business, medical treatment. People's representatives and employees of all 5 wards of the municipality have now reached Kathmandu looking for service users.
More than 1100 people have taken service from the integrated camp organized by Solukhumbu's Nechasalyan rural municipality in Kathmandu. The municipality conducted an integrated service camp at Sukedhara in Kathmandu for 4 days from July 19 to 22. Village Chairman Dhanjan Rai said that the camp was organized for the convenience of the residents of the municipality who have settled temporarily in Kathmandu.
