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Posted on 06-28-07 1:53 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Poor locals scramble for ‘decayed’ rations



BY HARIHAR SINGH RATHAUR


DAILEKH, June 28 - Scores of residents of Chupra VDC in Dailekh scrambled to grab tons of decayed rice, while the grain was being prepared for disposing, Tuesday.
Roughly 153 quintals of decayed rations, supposed to have been delivered to Jumla district during a famine, were stored at district headquarters Dailekh since the last four years. Local Development Ministry and donor agencies had decided to dispose of the rations by burning them on a riverbank in neighboring Chupra VDC.

However, locals put out the fire and jostled among themselves for the grain. They also looted trucks transporting the decayed food. According to a driver, three vehicles returned to Dailekh municipality on Wednesday morning after aggressive locals started looting the rations.

Meanwhile, staff deployed for disposing the decayed rations are facing difficulties after Badi locals of Namuna area refused to allow the returned rations to be kept inside a godown at district headquarters. Instead, defying the officials' claim about the threat of eating the decayed food, the locals feasted on the rations.

"I ate the food and found the meal tasty," said Naina Nepali, an elderly woman of Namuna slum area, sheltering under one of the trucks that transported the grains to the area. "We will accept the food, decayed or whatsoever. The government cannot just dump rations while people are famished," she said gobbling a handful of rice.

Other locals in the marketplace rushed to the storehouse after the rumor of 'free ration' spread in the area. Local families busied themselves taking loads of rations to their homes throughout the day.

Two years ago, locals indulged in a similar spree of capturing food rations when local administration buried 200 quintals of stale ration supply in the area. Most of the locals used the rations as meals while others prepared liquor from the decomposed food, after digging out the buried ration.
 
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सडेको चामल खोसाखोस



हरिहरसिंह राठौर


दैलेख, असार १३ - चार वर्षदेखि थन्किएर सडेको चामल नष्ट गर्न खोज्दा दैलेखका बासिन्दाले खोसेर लगेका छन् । आफूहरू भोकै बस्नुपरेकाले सडेकै चामल भए पनि खाने तर नष्ट गर्न नदिने उनीहरूको अडान थियो ।
स्थानीय विकास मन्त्रालयलगायत दातृ निकायबाट छानबिन भई मुचुल्का गराएपछि सडेको सबै चामल डढाएर वा गाडेर नष्ट गर्ने निर्णय भएको थियो । खाद्य प्रयोगशालाले जीवजन्तुले समेत खान नहुने प्रतिवेदन दिएपछि १ सय ५६ क्विन्टल चामल नष्ट गर्न चुप्रास्थित खोला बगरमा पुर्‍याइएका बेला स्थानीयले आगो निभाएर लुछाचुँडी गरेका थिए । उनीहरूले सदरमुकामबाट नष्ट गर्न ल्याइँदै गरेको चामल ट्याक्टरबाटै पनि लुटेका थिए ।

सडेको चामल खान नमिल्ने र खोलामा बगाउँदा पनि प्रदूषित हुने भएकाले जलाउने र पुर्ने निर्णय भएको थियो । नष्ट गर्न लगिएका चामल खोस्न थालिएपछि त्यसतर्फ लैजान लागेका दोस्रो खेपका तीन ट्याक्टर र एक ट्रक चामल बुधबार बिहान सदरमुकाम फर्काइएको ट्याक्टर चालकले बताए ।

न्ाष्ट गर्नुपर्ने च्ाामल लिएर भाडामा गएका ड्राइभर मंगलबार चुप्रामा रातभर सुत्न पाएनन् । गाडिसकिएको चामल पनि मंगलबार राति २ बजेसम्म लाकुरी गाविससम्मका गाउँले आएर ओसार्न थालेपछि आफूहरू गाडी कुरेर जाग्राम बसेको अर्का ट्याक्टरका खलासीले बताए ।

नष्ट गर्न नसकी बुधबार बिहान फिर्ता ल्याइएको चामलसमेत सदरमुकामस्थित नमुना बस्तीका बासिन्दाले गोदाममा भित्र्याउन दिएनन् । वादी समुदायका ती बासिन्दाले नष्ट गर्नुको साटो उक्त चामल आफूहरूले पाउनुपर्ने माग राखेका थिए ।

नष्ट गर्न आएका कर्मचारीले सडेको चामल खान नमिल्ने बताए पनि कतिले चामल झिकेर गोदामनजिकै भतेरसमेत लगाए । 'मैले त गाडीमुनि बसेर यही चामल पकाएर खाएँ, मीठै लाग्यो,' उक्त बस्तीकी वृद्धा नैना नेपालीले भनिन् ।

सदरमुकाममा सित्तैमा चामल बाँड्ने हल्लाले अरू काममा बजार आएकाहरूसमेत बोरा किन्दै गोदामतिर कुदेका थिए । वरपरका गाउँबाट बोरा बोक्दै सदरमुकाम आउने क्रम दिनभर जारी रह्यो ।

स्थानीयले नष्ट गर्न तथा गोदाममा राख्न पनि नदिएपछि ६ राजनीतिक दलका नेता, प्रमुख जिल्ला अधिकारी, स्थानीय विकास अधिकारीसमेतको बैठक बसेको थियो । बैठकले उक्त चामल खान अयोग्य भन्दै बिहीबार गाड्ने गरी साँझ प्रहरी कार्यालय नजिक राख्ने निर्णय गरेको थियो । निर्णय कार्यान्वयन गर्न जिविस जुम्लाले ओभरसियर रामप्रसाद दासलाई दैलेख पठाएको थियो ।

विश्व खाद्य कार्यक्रमले जुम्लामा सञ्चालन गरेको 'कामका लागि खाद्यान्न' कार्यक्रमअन्तर्गतको

६ सय ९५ क्विन्टल उक्त चामल दैलेखमै सडेको हो । दैलेखसम्म मोटरमा ल्याई यहाँबाट बोकाउनुपर्ने भएकाले चामल यहींको एक घरमा भाडा तिरेर राखिएको थियो । विश्व खाद्यले गाडीले ढुवानी गर्ने स्थानसम्म लगिदिने र बाँकी ढुवानीको जिम्मा जिविस र उपभोक्तालाई दिएको थियो ।

यी दुई निकायको लापरबाहीले चामल सडेको कार्यक्रमका जिल्ला प्रतिनिधि नरेन्द्र केसीले बताए ।

कार्यक्रमले काम गरेको ज्यालाबाहेक ढुवानीबापत शतप्रतिशत चामल ज्याला दिने गर्छ । तर जुम्लाबाट दैलेख आएर प्रतिव्यक्ति ४० केजी चामल जुम्ला लैजान १० दिन लाग्ने भएकाले ज्यालाबापतको चामल पनि खाँदै सकिन्छ । त्यसैले उपभोक्ताहरू चामल लिन नआएकाले पनि सडेको हो । दुई वर्षअघि सदरमुकाममा गाडिएको दुई सय क्विन्टल चामल स्थानीय विपन्न परिवारले उतारेर खान लगेका थिए । कतिपयले त्यसलाई मदिरा बनाउन प्रयोग गरेका थिए ।
 
Posted on 06-28-07 1:54 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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tHIS is one of the example of Nepalese Goverments and girija's failure.

Sujata is wearing $1000 worth of glasses and our people in nepal dont have $1 worth of rice to eat...............
 
Posted on 06-28-07 8:50 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Nepal yi nepaliharu ko ho ki hoina? Sala Gyane, Girije ani mula aru neta haru...
 
Posted on 06-28-07 9:08 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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What a disgraceful story! Why would they store rice for four years and wait for it to decay? Why couldn’t they distribute to locals earlier? I am not even gonna blame on Girija because I don’t think he gives a rat ass about hungry Nepalease? The dude is so old that he can’t even take care of himself; how the f*** he is gonna worried about the rest of the country? I never understood the concept of Nepalese trusting the old, crooked, uneducated, unsuccessful, and futile leader to guide the country. Don’t get me wrong but I don’t see much of a difference in Gyane ruling the country or Girija leading the country.
 
Posted on 06-28-07 9:25 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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"Why would they store rice for four years and wait for it to decay?"

Same reason why there are hundreds of thousands of trailer homes in the fields of Arkansas bought with tax-payer's money for Katrina victims while there are millions of people made homeless by the hurricane who has no roof over their head.

Bureaucracy, in most cases, is the root of evil. I don't think it is Girija's fault. But then, come to think of, it is his fault, after all buck stops with him.
 


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