Amit Basnet, 24, of Dhunibeshi Municipality-2, Dhading, was injured after being shot during the Gen-G movement.

Basnet, who has been in the hospital for 19 days, is now waiting for the government to provide financial assistance. Basnet, who says that more than 55,000 rupees have been spent on treatment and that he is spending a fortune on regular medicine, is also unaware of the fact that the government is classifying the injured. While on Kartik 24, the Ministry of Health had approved the criteria for classifying the injured in the Gen-G movement. Basnet said, 'All the hospital documents are safe. But after crossing a distance of 6 hours, they have not even been able to go to the administration to understand.' As the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Home Affairs failed to take prompt action in time, 2,521 injured people like him have been affected. The Ministry of Health had classified the injured into 4 categories: very serious, serious, moderate and normal on Kartik 24. The ministry sent the file to the Ministry of Home Affairs the next day, i.e. on 25, to classify the injured who were treated in 74 health institutions across the country. The Home Department had written to the District Administration Offices on the 25th to send the names according to the same classification. In the letter, the Home Department had issued a seven-day notice and asked them to complete the classification of the injured as soon as possible and send it to the Technical Committee of Gen-G Protest Injured of the Ministry of Health and inform the Home Department about it. But even after two weeks of the Home Department's letter, all the district administrations have not classified the injured and sent the file. Due to which the process of classifying the injured and providing assistance based on it has been obstructed. Only 132 of the injured in Kathmandu during the Gen-G protest have come in contact with the District Administration Office. Last Friday, the administration requested the injured to attend the National Trauma Center, and they came there. Ishwar Raj Poudel, Chief District Officer of the District Administration Office, Kathmandu, said that they have classified 132 Gen-G protest injured by publishing a notice in the first phase. He said, 'Since there is a possibility of more exemptions, we have issued a notice again and asked them to appear in the meeting hall of the administration office next Friday. After completing this work, we will submit the classification list to the Ministry of Home Affairs.' The District Administration Office, Chitwan had issued a notice through newspapers and radio asking those injured in the Gen-G movement to come in contact. But Chief District Officer Ganesh Aryal said that only 6 people have come in contact so far. Stating that the Ministry of Home Affairs had sent a letter with the data that 173 people were injured in Chitwan and sent them classified, he said, 'There are 7 seriously injured people here. The rest are very lightly injured. Some had reached the hospital with only minor injuries from tear gas.' He said that the office has issued a notice again and called on the injured to come in contact quickly.

The District Administration Office, Kaski, on the other hand, has just started working to classify the injured. Kaski Chief District Officer Rudra Devi Sharma said that the list of 92 injured people has been received from the Home Department, saying, 'Today, Tuesday, we are distributing identity cards to 12 injured people. There is also a problem in distribution as some are outside the district for treatment. There may be a problem because the injured are in other districts and their addresses are here. We are identifying them.'

Spokesperson and Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Anand Kafle said that the work of classifying the injured in the Gen-G movement is underway as per the work order made by the Ministry of Health. 'A committee of 8 people has been formed in all districts under the coordination of the Chief District Officer as per the work procedure. That is why we have coordinated,' he said, and a circular has been issued to the concerned district administration to complete all the classification-related processes within seven days and send the file to the Ministry of Health. It was done.' He said that he had written to the Ministry stating that the injured had not been contacted by them from 30 to 35 districts, while the remaining districts were trying to classify the injured.

The Gen-G protested on 23 Bhadra against the ban on social media and corruption. After 19 people died due to excessive police repression on the first day, anger increased and more protesters took to the streets on 24 Bhadra. The death toll in the incidents on both days reached 76 and 2571 people were injured. Three policemen were killed in the beatings by the protesters.

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