The Srijana Soap Industry established at local Bijaur-1 by Dev Bahadur BK, a former Maoist combatant who returned home some months back choosing voluntary retirement, is doing good business.[break]
Washing soap produced by the factory is finding big market in all the five districts of the Rapti Zone, according to the proprietor BK.
The factory was established with the joint investment of eight hundred thousand rupees by BK and two of his comrades—Krishna Rokaya of Rukum and Sudip Tamang from Kathmandu. Rokaya and Tamang are also former Maoist combatants.
The factory employs five people and currently produces soap for washing clothes. The proprietors plan to upgrade the factory in near future and start producing bathing soap as well.
Tamang said they decided to establish the factory to develop positive attitude towards the former Maoist combatants in society and to forget the wounds of the war.
"We started this factory to forget the sufferings from the People´s War and to explore the means for sustenance. Our product is selling well and we are all happy with this," he said.
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