Geeta is a successful beekeeper. She started beekeeping with two hives in 2052 BS and has grown it to two hundred hives. She has also become the central vice-president of the Nepal Beekeepers Federation.
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Geeta Devkota is a well-known name in Chitwan in the fields of politics, social service and agricultural enterprise. Devkota, who has spent a long time in politics but has not reached any high position, was elected as a member of the National Assembly on Sunday. Devkota, who is the Nepali Congress candidate in Bagmati Province from the women's group for the National Assembly, has won from the Congress-UML alliance.
Devkota got 6,239 votes, while her nearest rival Saroj Kumari Jha of the NCP got 2,522 votes and another candidate, Kabita Maharjan of the Nepal Workers and Farmers Party got 197 votes.
Geeta is a successful beekeeper. She started beekeeping from two hives in 2052 BS and increased it to 200 hives. She has also become the central vice-president of the Nepal Beekeepers Federation.
Geeta, who was born in Ratnanagar-12, Chitwan in 2028 BS, was married to Bilbhadra Devkota in 2045 BS. Her husband died in a motorcycle accident in 2049 BS. Devkota has also been active in society for the rights of single women. She became involved in the politics of the Nepal Students' Union in 2044 BS during her student days.
Her party politics began in 2051 BS with an ordinary member of the Nepali Congress. In 2053 BS, she took active membership of the party. She was elected as a ward member of the then Pithuwa Village Development Committee-3 as a candidate in the local elections of 2054 BS and has been elected to a higher position only now. But she never left politics, social service and agricultural enterprise.
She became the VDC Vice President, Regional Committee Member, District Working Committee Member and General Convention Representative of the Nepal Women's Association and a member of the Pithuwa Village Working Committee, Regional Committee Member, and Invited Member of the District Working Committee of the Nepali Congress. She became a General Convention Representative of the Nepali Congress in the 12th and 13th General Conventions and a General Committee Member in the 14th General Convention.
Her involvement and activism also continued in the Red Cross, cooperatives, school management committees and monasteries. She became active for women's rights as the President of the Single Women's Town Level Coordination Committee. She said that her long-standing experience interacting with the community allows her to play a role in the national interest and social justice in the National Assembly.
