Nawalparasi, Dec 29: The Musahar community of Devchuli municipality-2 is braving extremely cold with the dipping mercury.
The settlement has around 113 Musahar households surviving on daily wages. It is one of the most backward communities in the country.
“We have neither clothes nor food to brave severe cold,” said local Shanti Musahar said.
Her house is a hut-like structure. Door and windows have no furniture and left open round the clock. “Only option is sun basking. We sleep on straw. The husband has not got job either,” she shared their plight.
There are a lot of Musahars like Shanti who are bound to spend night with empty stomach. “It is difficult to manage food twice a day,” she wailed.
Similarly, Jitani Majhi, 65, said there no food grains nor clothes. “We’re deprived of foods and left hungry for long. As there is no work, it has been long we have not been able to manage evening meal,” she grieved.
Mayor of Devchuli municipality, Hari Prasad Neupane, said his office would immediately manage warm clothes and food stuffs in the Musahar settlement. “Even some programmes are in the offing to elevate financial status of Musahar people,” he vowed.
