Incident Reports

Rural Municipality padlocked protesting irregularities

2018-10-28

Lumbini, Palpa, Purbakhola

Youths of Province No. 5's Purbakhola Rural Municipality have padlocked the Municipality Office. According to one of the local youths, they had to padlock the office because of its administrative irregularity, misuse of public vehicles, money squandered by consumers committee.  Purnakhola Youth Society are demanding that public hearing and discussion should be done in the process of plan formatting, municipality office building's construction, worker's management, irregularity in Ujyalo Champaign, misuse of public vehicles, worker's foreign visit, declaration in election, current situation and so on. Purbakhola Rural Municipality's President is assuming that trouble might have occurred due to disagreement in technical matter. He also added that in what matter opponents are having disagreement is not clear, 15 points memorandum is submitted. Thapa said office will be re-opened from Monday.           

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Gherau/Dharna (sit-in)/padlocking
Primary Cause Issues related to corruption (other than tenders)
Actor 1 - Number of people NA
Actor 1 - Affiliations Protesters/demonstrators
Actor 1 - Youth youth
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
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