Locals have gathered to clean the ward offices of Pokhara Metropolitan City which were damaged during the agitation, while individuals and organizations have started reaching out to the administration for assistance in running government offices in Chitwan.
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Sushil KC of Pokhara-12 became paranoid when he saw that the ward office in front of his house was on fire. There were no ward residents who set fire to the ward office on August 24. "They came in two or three groups and started arson," he said about the group that started vandalism and arson, "There was no one who believed that this should not be done."
On Sunday, the ward office called on the locals to join in cleaning the ward office on Monday through social media. KC was the first to reach the ward office and grabbed a shovel. About two hundred locals gathered to clean the ward office. "Residence on the party will be in its place," KC, a transport businessman, said, "Wada office is our second home." We got involved in cleaning without telling this or that party.'' The locals washed away the ashes. Cleaned the broken lead. Remove burnt items. Separate the materials that can be used. The city's fire department washed away the garbage.
The Ward President's office was established on Monday after the local people were involved in the restoration. According to ward president Santosh Ranabhat, 3 rooms were destroyed in the fire. Currently, preparations are being made to provide services from 4 partially damaged rooms. The ward is preparing to start service from October 1. "If there was no active participation of the local people, it would have taken a few more days for the ward office to be operational," he said, "now we have reached the stage of providing regular services." 20 ward offices of Pokhara have been completely damaged due to arson and vandalism on 24 August. 7 have partial damage while 6 have no damage.
Most of the ward offices that have been damaged by fire have been deployed by locals to clean them. Locals cleaned the office of Ward No. 10 on Sunday. People's representatives, workers of various parties and locals cleaned the office and prepared it for service. They saved the useful stuff. On Monday, they prepared the office by connecting computers, internet and electricity. The office is ready to serve from Monday, according to the full notice of ward members.
About 400 locals gathered on Monday to clean the ward office of Pokhara-5 Malepatan. Cleanliness was done with the activities of local mothers' groups, youth clubs, village development organizations. The ward office, which was inaugurated on June 19, was prepared at a cost of 5 crore 64 lakh rupees. From arson, vandalism and looting, there is nothing left except the structure of the ward office.
Ward President Bishnu Prasad Baral said that cleanliness was possible due to the enthusiastic participation of the ward residents. "Seeing the condition of the newly built ward building, the residents of the ward have become disheartened," he said. "We are ready to provide services, but due to the closure of Malpot, Napi, and district administration, there is a situation where service users are not coming to do the work from the ward," he said.
On Monday, local residents gathered and cleaned the ward offices including 13, 16, 17 which were damaged by fire. The local, private sector and various organizations are extending their support to restore the ward offices, police offices, and other government offices that were damaged by the fire. During the protest, the main administrative building of Pokhara Metropolitan City was completely damaged. Due to the arson of the building by the protestors, the important documents of the office were burnt to ashes. All the rooms of the office have been set on fire and the chief's office has been vandalized. Some office materials have been stolen.
The metropolis has prepared to regularize office services from October 2. Motilal Timilsina, spokesperson of the metropolis, said that the service will be started for the time being by using various structures under the metropolis to regularize the services of the city dwellers. The metropolis is ready to prepare all the details of the damage by October 2. The workplace has been managed in such a way as to regularize the services of all the divisions and branches of the metropolis. The office of the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Chief Administrative Officer, Public Accounts Committee, Law Branch, Sanitation Branch, and Information Technology Branch are being prepared in Pokhara-9 Shanti Forest fire station building.
Administration, Revenue and Urban Development Division, Bhandar, Data Disaster/Complaint Form, Archiving, Registration, Accounts Branch and Metropolitan Police Force will be in the Pokhara Auditorium. The office of the head of the Economic Administration Division and the services of the Fund Administration Branch will flow from the building of the Education Division at Pokhara-17 Damside. The education department will remain the same. The services of infrastructure, internal audit branch, planning, land administration, procurement branch will be provided from the infrastructure division building located at New Road. From the economic development division located at Pokhara-7 Janapriya Marg, there will be work related to economic, cooperative branch, labor and employment branch (including Sami program) and business promotion center. According to
spokesperson Timilsina, if there is damage to the district administration, surveyor, property and ward offices, services such as preparation of documents for students going to foreign education, recommendations for houses and land for banking transactions, renewal of social security allowance, revenue collection, passport, citizenship, distribution of national identity cards, incident registration etc. will be affected. The development work done by the metropolis will be pushed. It will take time to start programs in other social sectors including Bright Metropolis. The payment process has been interrupted. "Even if our office is formally opened, there may not be a situation where customers will come," he said, "with everyone's help, we will regularize these services soon." Chief District Officer of Chitwan, Ganesh Aryal, said that individuals and organizations have been coming with proposals for assistance and the administration has drawn up a blueprint for receiving assistance. Many government offices here have been burnt due to arson. "Many of you have come to say that we will help you. Instead of giving it directly to an office, we have asked them to submit all the materials to the district administration according to the one-door system," said Prazia Aryal.
He said that the district administration will assign those materials to the offices on the basis of their needs. Prazia Aryal informed that the protestors set fire to 79 government and municipal offices including the court, malpot, surveyor, district administration and others in Chitwan.
He says that there is nothing left of the chairs and equipment in some offices. To start the service, 60/65 computers and computers, even if they are of normal type, are needed for the time being. It is seen that these materials will be gathered from the helpers," said Prazia Aryal. Aryal said that some allies and organizations are willing to build and rebuild offices.
