Most of the Nepalis who are in different cities of India for employment usually return to their villages to celebrate Dasain-Tihar. It is not new that all the border crossings, bus parks and main highways are crowded due to the crowd of people coming to celebrate the main festival Dasain-Tihar. Every day thousands of Nepalis are returning home to celebrate the festival from Gauriphanta (Trinagar), the main gateway of Far West. However, the number of people leaving the country in search of work at this time is also not low here.

According to the 'Border Out Post' (BOP) of Trinagar-based Armed Police Force Nepal, more than three thousand Nepalis are returning home from India every day, while the number of people leaving the country and going to India is also over one thousand every day.

According to Trinagar-based BOP, in the last three days, more than 4,000 Nepali people have gone to India through the Trigar border crossing. According to BOP chief DSP Dhirendra Shah, Sardars are going to different cities of India daily in the number of more than 1,300. Border security personnel said that the number of people going to India during Dasain-Tihar and Chhath this year is more than in the past. 

According to the armed police assigned to the border security, the number of people going to India from the day of Pohor Ghatasthapana to the end of Dasain was only 2500 people per day. But this year, more than 1,100 people crossed the border last Wednesday and 1,500 people crossed the border on Tuesday. On the eve of Dasain-Tihar, the rush to India was not reduced even on Friday.

A large number of people from various districts of the Far West pass through Dhangadhi and pass through Gouriphanta Nak to different cities of India in search of employment. Even those who could not come home during Dasain are now calling their children and families there. The number of children heading to Indian cities was also significant.

Being from the borders of Trinagar, most of the nine districts of far west and Karnali, Surkhet, Mugu, Dailekh, Humla and Dang area of ​​Kalikot and Lumbini have gone to different cities of India in search of work. Kavi Thapa, who is working at Kedar Transport Services in Dhangadhi, says that they are operating transport services from here to major cities like Haryana, Delhi, Bangalore, Maharashtra, Pune, Punjab, Shimla, Jammu, Lucknow, Assam, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Surat etc.

Kamal Saud of Navadurga rural municipality Suwakot of Dadeldhura took out his citizenship documents from his bag while moving towards the check post where Indian security force 'SSB' was stationed to cross the border after recording his details in BOP. His turn was after seven people in line at the checkpoint. On his way to Bangalore, India, he passed the security check and headed towards Gauriphanta Bus Park in Paltir. Who would want to leave home and go abroad on the eve of Dussehra? If we don't return even now, we are afraid that we will lose our livelihood.'

Most of the faces of the Nepali and Indian security personnel sitting in the checking line look dull. On the one hand, there is the pain of being separated from the family on the face of Dasain, on the other hand, after the recent Gen-G movement and the coup d'état in Nepal, both Nepali and Indian security personnel are strictly checking those who travel through the border area. The security agencies on both sides have considered it a security challenge because the prisoners escaped during the

movement. The armed police have kept the details of the prisoners. They are allowed to go only after looking at government documents. Indian security personnel have also been very strict. According to security sources, they have also kept a detailed description of escaped Nepali prisoners. 

Even the festival has not stopped the rush of people who go to different cities of India in search of work through Trinagar of Kailali, the main border of the Far West. Karan Bist from Suwakot was traveling to Delhi, India with his family and children. He was also not happy that he had to leave his village during the main festival and go to Muglan with his family for livelihood. Jeevan Tharu of Sukkhad, Kailali, who was going to Delhi, reached Gauriphanta and after looking for a bus to Palia, informed his wife at home. 

India's cities are the main sources of employment and income for the residents of the Far West, which is at the bottom of the poverty index. Those who went to India work as janitorial, hotel, shop and house workers. Since that is not enough, most of them clean the car in the morning. They say that there is extra income for that.