A public resting place for travelers in the village has been housing the VDC office, veterinary service center, post office, sub health post and village development program office in one of its room for the last three years.[break]
President of the Village Development Program says the rest house has been housing these offices after landslides swept away the VDC Office and Post Office three years back.
The three-room rest house has two rooms in the ground floor, where the employees of the offices live, while the single room upstairs holds the five different offices. The common people are asked the purpose of their visit once they enter the room climbing a staircase and then shown their respective corners.
This unique conglomerate of offices has many groups of chairs and tables facing different directions and is generally crowded more with the employees themselves than the service seekers. "We have our own cupboards but we don´t care about the chairs and tables. We get down on any available chair of our convenience and start doing our work," says Hum Bahadur Rana of the sub health post.
The floor of the rest house, meant just for travelers to sleep on their mats, is made of wooden planks and is uneven making it difficult to even keep chairs and tables balanced. "We have to be careful about not getting our legs stuck in the holes between planks and broken," Rana elaborates.
Local teacher Lekhnath Neupane says the setting has fostered harmony among the employees who help in works of other offices when their employees are absent. "The work of an office is never hampered due to absence of employees as there are employees of other offices to help," Neupane reasons.
VDC Secretary Hari Prasad Ghimire, however, compares it with stalls at footpath. "It doesn´t feel like an office. We can´t work according to our plan and have to needlessly waste time with persons coming for other works," Ghimire rues.
But the locals have no complaints whatsoever about the arrangement of five offices in the single room and feel happy about getting their works done easily. Rom Bahadur Somai of Juthopauwa-7 who has come to get medicines for his sick daughter enquires if his sons have sent any letter from abroad. After being told he hdoesn´t have any, he then asks whether there are any letters for his neighbors.
"It has been a great comfort for us. We can also get other works done once we come here for a work," Somai said.
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