INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, April 21
Chandra Yonjan, 42, along with his wife and two children, were spotted on the Araniko Highway at Thimi last night at
There were scores of other people waiting for a bus that would take them to their hometown in Gaurishankar Municipality, Dolakha.
Yonjan
works as a bricklayer in a construction company
He was stranded in Kathmandu after the lockdown
After spending 28 days in Kathmandu, he was almost out of cash and he had no food stock left
He then decided to request the local leader in his municipality to evacuate them from here.
Following the request of stranded workers
such as Yonjan, dozens of local governments from Dolakha, Sindhupalchowk, Ramechhap and Okhaldhunga urged Bhaktapur District Administration
Office to facilitate their travel
Acting on the requests of local levels, Bhaktapur DAO allowed dozens of vehicles from these local levels to take the stranded persons from
Kathmandu valley to their homes.
Bhaktapur DAO said they had allowed more than 6,000 people living in Bhaktapur and adjoining districts to
leave for their hometowns in the last three days.
Chief District Officer of Bhaktapur Humakala Pandey said, &Everyday, the number of people
leaving the valley is increasing and we are coordinating accordingly to send them to their hometowns after verifying the details provided by
the local governments outside the valley.&
Meanwhile, a philanthropic organisation, Manabiya Aastha Nepal, is providing free meals to the
poor, who are leaving for their homes due to the lockdown
The organisation claimed that it had provided free food to more than 5,000 people from their food stalls set up in Bhaktapur.
The Supreme
Court has also recently asked the government to safely transport stranded persons to their hometowns.
Daily wage earners and the poor have
been walking for days to reach their homes after extension of the nationwide lockdown.
A version of this article appears in print on April
22, 2020 of The Himalayan Times.
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