On Bhadra 10, local Gen-G and Gen-Y groups locked down the rural municipality office, alleging that the municipality had not provided timely information and had not addressed their demands.
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Services have been disrupted in Surnaya Rural Municipality of Baitadi for the past three weeks due to a lockout by local Gen-G and Gen-Y groups. Despite the 24-day lockout, no agreement has been reached between the rural municipality and the agitating parties yet.
The long-term service disruption has caused hardship to service recipients. The local Gen-G and Gen-Y groups had locked the rural municipality office on Bhadra 24, saying that the rural municipality had not been informed in time and that their demands had not been addressed.
Although there was an agreement with the group that had locked it on other issues, the lockout in the rural municipality could not be lifted due to the lack of agreement on the removal of contract employees hired by the rural municipality, said Amar Kunwar, the rural municipality chairperson.
‘The Gen-G group has maintained that contract employees should be removed immediately as per the federal government’s statement,’ he said, ‘Since there are two sides in our executive on this issue, no consensus has been reached.’ Half of the executive members have said that contract employees should be removed as per the statement of Gen-G and Gen-Y, while the other half are in favor of not removing them.
Bishal Bhatta, the coordinator of the Gen-G and Gen-Y groups, said that there was no agreement on any of the issues they demanded and that the chairperson had reached an agreement and only the issue of contract employees remained to be agreed upon. "The people's representatives of the municipality are not unanimous in our demands," he said. "We are now preparing to change the form of the movement, not just by locking down, for the control of corruption and good governance of the entire Suranya."
He said that he was not working for the benefit of any people's representative or political party, but for the control of corruption and good governance of the entire Suranya. Although other local levels have issued notices for the agreement to build a plan, internal disputes among the people's representatives in Suranya have not been able to distribute even the plan from the ward.
