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200,000 district residents depend on an understaffed 15-bed hospital
Published On: June 27, 2019 08:23 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, June 27: The Rolpa District Hospital, which is supposed to provide medical care to 200,000 residents of the district, has only 15 beds. District residents are aware of this shortcoming and have been demanding for improving the quality of service it provides by expanding its capacity and adding human resources for a long time now.
Case filed against teacher for thrashing five students
Published On: June 27, 2019 08:04 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, June 27: A case has been filed against a school teacher, Laxmi Pun, who had thrashed five students at a primary school in Rolpa district on May 26 seriously injuring them.
Rolpa village declared free from caste-based discrimination
Published On: June 13, 2019 05:30 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, June 13: Rolpa district's Warchawang-4 in Madi Rural Municipality has been declared free from caste-based discrimination.
Former Maoist combatant Nirmala recovering from mental illness
Published On: June 10, 2019 06:00 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, June 10: Former Maoist combatant Nirmala BK, who had been unresponsive for the past three years due to mental illness, has shown signs of improvement after her medical treatment was started last Thursday.
Mentally-challenged former Maoist combatant Nirmala rescued
Published On: June 7, 2019 06:00 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, June 7: Thirty-two years old Nirmala BK, a former Maoist combatant also known as 'Sadhana', hailing from Tribeni Rural Municipality-5 of Rolpa, who has been suffering from mental health problems for years, has finally received medical treatment.
Once a Maoist combatant, now a mental case
Published On: June 5, 2019 07:48 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, June 5: Eight-year-old Jiwan BK often breaks into tears while looking at the miserable condition of his mother. With a severely burnt leg, she is usually seen sitting on a pile of cow dung.
School teacher arrested for breaking arms of students
Published On: June 4, 2019 11:26 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, June 4: A teacher of Bhanu Basic School of Runtigadhi Rural Municipality-8 of Rolpa has been arrested on Monday afternoon on the charge of severely beating up schoolchildren and fracturing the forearms of five of them. A total of 14 students were injured in the beating by teacher Laxmi Pun, who had punished the students on May 26 for being late to the morning assembly.
14 students injured after teacher thrashes students with cane in Rolpa
Published On: June 3, 2019 01:19 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, June 3: Fourteen students were seriously injured in a primary school in Rolpa district after their teacher thrashed them with a cane, police said.
Child marriage rampant in Rolpa but rarely reported to police
Published On: May 12, 2019 08:17 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, May 12: Even though the number of child marriages is extensively high in Rolpa, very few cases of this ill-practice are reported to police. The government has criminalized child marriage, yet those practicing and encouraging child marriage are neither punished nor ostracized by the law enforcing agencies.
Road asphalt wears off within a year of construction
Published On: May 8, 2019 03:30 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, May 8: The asphalt layer of the 31-kilometer road stretch connecting Ghorahi of Dang to Holeri of Rolpa has worn off even before a year since the construction of the road.
Rolpa schools struggling in lack of funds
Published On: May 8, 2019 02:30 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, May 8: Even though the government has pledged free education up to the secondary level as child's fundamental right in the constitution, it does not provide financial resources to all community schools to pay teachers' salary and other resources a school needs.
Rural municipality shifts focus from roads to education
Published On: May 4, 2019 02:05 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, May 4: In the last one decade, road networks across the country have remarkably expanded including in the high hills of Rolpa. Poor engineering or haphazard opening of tracks has been blamed for environmental hazards as well. Amid this, a local unit here in eastern Rolpa has decided to shift its focus from roads to education.
Boy presumed dead comes home 17 years later
Published On: May 1, 2019 08:12 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, May 1: Pratap Singh Gharti, a seven-year-old in Rolpa, lost his way 17 years ago during the Maoist armed insurgency. He finally made it back home Saturday.
Bomb goes off in Rolpa targeting Province 5 Chief Minister
Published On: April 30, 2019 04:17 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, April 30: An unidentified group detonated an improvised explosive device targeting Province 5 Chief Minister Shankhar Pokhrel in Rolpa on Tuesday.
Civil Servant adjustment leads to manpower crunch in Rolpa
Published On: April 23, 2019 04:00 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, April 23: The auxiliary health workers (AHWs) of three wards of Madi Rural Municipality of Rolpa are handling the responsibility of ward secretaries due to the lack of sufficient workforce.
Once underdeveloped, Rolpa on the path to prosperity
Published On: April 14, 2019 07:38 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, April 14: Until a decade ago, access to the road network was a dream for Rolpa residents. The district has one municipality and nine rural municipalities.
Most roads in Rolpa constructed without DPR and IEA report
Published On: April 14, 2019 03:00 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, April 14: With the formation of the local governments, road connectivity became the first preference for all.
'Private health centers in Rolpa prescribing wrong medicines'
Published On: March 27, 2019 04:00 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, March 27: Doctors in Rolpa are facing a self induced medical crisis that has risked countless lives.
Holeri gears up for tourism promotion through literary festival
Published On: March 16, 2019 10:00 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, March 16: Runtighadi Development Conference was organized in Rolpa just a few days ago. As a result, another such function is on the way for the promotion of tourism and literature in the area. Local bodies of Rolpa with the support of other stakeholders are organizing the ‘Rashtriya Akshar Mahotsav’ this month. The two-day function will start on March 22.
Not even 'goat sacrifice' could stop students from fainting at school
Published On: March 11, 2019 11:25 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi
ROLPA, March 11: The ailing health of the students studying at Pitaraj Basic School (PBS) of Liwang, the district headquarters of Rolpa, has left their parents worried for the past two months.
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