The rural municipality decided to grant a school holiday after students and their parents started walking towards the lake to collect Yarsagumba, the main source of income for the locals.
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Apihimal Rural Municipality schools have been closed for two weeks after students and their parents walked to the lake to collect Yarsagumba. The community schools in Apihimal have been closed for 15 days, effective from Sunday. The rural municipality has decided to close schools after students and their parents started walking to the lake to collect Yarsagumba, the main source of income for locals. According to Madanraj Joshi, education officer of the rural municipality, schools across the municipality will be closed for 15 days from April 27. He said that the schools are being closed to coincide with the summer holidays. As the main source of income is Yarsagumba, as many children and the elderly who can walk go to the lake during this season. After the school is closed, teachers and students also go to Yarsa Patan.
The rural municipality education department issued a notice on Friday stating that the closed schools will reopen from Jestha 10. Around 1,100 students are studying in 22 community schools across Apihimal rural municipality. Most of them, along with their parents, go to the lake to collect Yarsagumba and other herbs.
Locals have been reaching the Patan area since the last week of Baisakh to collect Yarsagumba. Most of the family members go to Patan as they earn good income in a short time. After the locals head to the lake with their families, the villages in the northern area have started looking deserted. They go to Patan with tarpaulins, tents, food, clothes and other daily necessities.
With the start of the Yarsa season, residents of Marma, Naugad and Vyas rural municipalities in the district have also gone to the lake. Locals say that some villages have locked their houses and gone to the lake. Dhiran Singh Budhathoki, ward chairman of Beas Rural Municipality-2, said that at this time, people leave their cattle in the forest and take small children with them to the lake.
He said that from mid-Baisakh to the end of Jestha, most of the houses in the village are locked. ‘This is the main income-generating season. During these two months, people can only be found in houses with children and the elderly who cannot walk,’ he said. The largest number of collectors in the district have reached the areas of Lolu, Ringdepani, Satganga, Kalidhunga, Katai, Ghattekhola, Dharamghar, Kshatti, Chaimtela and other areas in the Apihimal region.
