In every election, candidates promise to build roads while seeking votes. However, locals complain that the road has not been built even after 20 years.
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As the voting date approaches, speculation about the victory/loss of the candidate is starting in the settlements, tolls, tea shops and squares in the district. Politics has become the main topic of conversation. Leaders are busy going door to door. Residents here are expressing their complaints along with their questions to the candidates. Youths are waiting to vote.
While the country is in the midst of elections, Ashadevi Kunwar of Dhanchauri, Godavari-9 in the district is busy with household chores. She does not even know who the candidates are from her constituency. She does not even want to know the information about the candidates. When she reached Dhanchauri village on Wednesday, she was sitting in the courtyard of her house. When asked about the elections and the candidates, she elaborated on the problems faced by the villagers.
According to her, Dhanchauri has not yet received drinking water. All the residents are dependent on tube wells. There is only one social basic school in the village. She complains that children are not getting quality education. The road from Dhangadhi and Attariya to Dhanchauri is also not good. In every election, candidates promise to build a road to seek votes. However, Asha said that the road has not been built for 20 years.
‘Our biggest problem is the road,’ she said. ‘It would be great if a road was built from Dhanchauri to Attariya and Dhangadhi Campus Road.’ She said that due to the lack of a road, even Dhangadhi, which is 10 minutes away, has to be taken by detour after paying a fare of 600 rupees. Listening to the complaints of the locals, Dhanchauri seems to be a remote settlement. The locals have not been able to enjoy basic needs like drinking water, health posts, and quality education. The existing narrow roads are also unpaved and dusty. 
Kailali is included in the developed district of the Far West Province. However, the problems of the rural settlements in the district are not insurmountable. There is no health post near this settlement. When you are sick, you have to walk for 1 hour to reach the health post in Sehri village. Dhanchauri is a settlement on the banks of the Khutia River. Floods enter the settlement during the rainy season.
60-year-old Radhika Bhat from Dhanchauri is a flood victim. She has voted 4 times so far. She said that even when she voted for the first time, the leaders promised to solve the flood problem. This time too, she complains that the candidates are asking for votes saying that they will solve the same problem. Radhika's house was washed away when the flood entered the settlement 10 years ago. She said that nothing was saved from her food, clothes. She complained that she did not get any help even when the roof of her house was blown off by a storm 4 years ago. 
'Even after voting four times, the flood problem is the same.' Why should we vote for someone who doesn't understand our problems?' she said. Local Suresh Bhattarai is fed up with the leader's style of asking for votes. He said that leaders who used to ignore the problems of the people are now fooling the elderly by cooking food, cutting grass, and harvesting vegetables in the slums.
He says that now the leaders cannot use them as a vote bank. 'We have not asked the leader to build our house.' The main problem is the road. Since the stray cattle have created a mess, we will have to build a cowshed. He said that an embankment is necessary along with a suspension bridge and a concrete bridge.
