Incident Reports

Office of Rural Municipality in Humla padlocked since five days

2019-09-15

Karnali, Humla, Chankheli

The locals padlocked the office of Changkheli Rural Municipality and the health post of ward number two of the same municipality. The locals accused the local representatives and the staff at the health post of not showing up in the office regularly and delaying the search operation of Assistant Health Worker(AHW) Lal Bahadur Shahi of Piplang Health Post who went missing in Karnali river since September 13.  Before padlocking the rural municipality, the locals demanded that there be an investigation into the irregularities in the municipality, that the financial details of the rural municipality be made public and that the staffs of the rural municipality be in the office regularly, said Bimala Shahi, the deputy chairperson of the rural municipality. 
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Event Duration More than 1 day
Primary Form Gherau/Dharna (sit-in)/padlocking
Primary Cause Other governance issues
Secondary Cause Issues related to legal action and access to justice
Actor 1 - Number of people 12
Actor 1 - Affiliations Protesters/demonstrators
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
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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