What you should know
The Nepali Army has reached all ten local levels of Achham and has started to spread public awareness by carrying out disaster management drills.
Gorakh Box Gana of Nepali Army in Mangalsen Barracks of Achham is reaching the remote places of the district and distributing them from raising awareness to machines for disposing of used sanitary pads. It has also provided electrical machines prepared by its own manpower to Bindrasaini Mavi in Turmakhand Rural Municipality-1 Rahaf, which is considered remote in the district, and the safe shelter in Mangalsen.
The Nepali Army has reached all ten local levels of Achham and has started to spread public awareness by practicing disaster management. Under the leadership of Amrit Khadka, a soldier of Gorakh Box Gana, there was a public awareness program about fire, how to avoid earthquakes, how to rescue when fighting, how to put out a fire in a gas cylinder or in a settlement, in a forest. "Previous years, disaster drills were conducted only once in one place in the district. Now, we have reached all the local levels and given public awareness information to the common people," he said, "First we gave an experiment on disaster management and then we demonstrated it through artificial incidents." A team of 40 members of the
group has now gone to various local levels of Achham and conducted programs related to disaster management.
Disaster management practice program started from Dhakari Rural Municipality has ended by showing an artificial phenomenon of monsoon disaster management and ended in Sanfebagar, according to Sangam Adhikari, Ganapati Chief of Gorakh Box Gana. "We have conducted public awareness programs and artificial exercises at this time as it is the season for fires and wildfires," he said. It was felt that this program is necessary at all local levels.
Jai Bahadur Budha of Turmakhand rural municipality-4 said that many people learned new things when the Nepali army taught them how to avoid disasters. Most of the people in the village have seen the army up close for the first time. I didn't even know that they do disaster-related work,' he said, 'I got a chance to see how a big incident can happen due to ordinary carelessness and what to do if it happens.' Sometimes the forest catches fire due to our own carelessness. At such a time, we were confused as to what to do and what to do. All women would get a lot of information if they could watch this program," she said. "Gas cylinders have come to the village. Many people don't even know how to use it. By coming to the village and showing it by practicing, we have become aware.'
