Locals in Bajura seeking job in India

By Our Correspondent,Bajura, Dec. 10: locals of Bajura have started going to India for work after finishing sowing wheat at home. People are going to India for manual work since there is no job scope in the village.

Dhan Bahadur Sarki of Budhiganga Municipality-10 said that after finishing sowing wheat in November, he started preparing to go to India to work for a few months. “Since there are no job opportunities in the village, we are forced to go to India to do manual labour during the winter and rainy season,” said Sarki. “In June, we return home to plant millet in a paddy field, celebrate Dasain and Tihar festivals and cultivate the crops and after that, we go back to India,” Sarki added.

After harvesting the winter crops and sowing the wheat, most of the locals of Bajura head to India to look for work. People residing in the Himali, Jagnath, Swamikartik, Budinanda, Badimalika, Gaumul, Budiganga, Triveni and Khaptad area of Bajura district leave for work during winter. 

“The local government uses excavators for development work, there is no job opportunity in the village,” said Padak Saud, a local of Badimalika Municipality-5 of Mana. “The village consumer committee only bring projects that are financially favourable to them and give work opportunity only to their preferred people under various pretexts. That is why we are compelled go to India for jobs,” Saud added.

Meanwhile, the local government said that they have recently been conducting various agricultural programmes so that the barren land in the village can be put to good use.

Ran Bahadur Thapa, Ward Chairman of Budhiganga Municipality Ward No-1, informed that the lack of job opportunities is compelling the local youths to desert the village.