Incident Reports

Tribeni Rural Municipality Office padlocked

2018-10-03

Karnali, Rukum West, Tribeni

Demanding for drinking water, residents of Tribeni-2, Rukum West has padlocked Rural Municipality Office on Wednesday. As the drinking water pipe line they have been using since 1982 got cut off, thus they are on strike. 

The office's lock won't be unlocked unless the supply of drinking water is started said Bupendra Bohora, one of the locals. On Tuesday, Rural Municipality Office agreed to supply drinking water however, the water wasn't supplied on Wednesday morning therefore they had to padlocked the office said Bohora.     

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Gherau/Dharna (sit-in)/padlocking
Primary Cause Access/control of water resources (irrigation, hydropower)
Actor 1 - Number of people 25
Actor 1 - Affiliations Citizen/Individuals
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health)
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media

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