{"id":6568,"date":"2021-03-16T11:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2021-03-16T11:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:44:50","slug":"praja-of-makawanpur-obtained-citizenship-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/?p=6568","title":{"rendered":"Praja of Makawanpur obtained citizenship at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Makawanpur: &#8211;<\/strong> An 80-year-old woman of Raksirang village municipality of Makawanpur has obtained citizenship from the District Administration Office, Makawanpur.<\/p>\n<p>Thulimaya Praja of Raksirang village municipality, who was born on Asadh-10, 1997 BS, got her citizenship on Sunday at the age of 80.<\/p>\n<p>Dev Kumar Gartaula, Information Officer of the District Administration Office, Makawanpur, handed over Nepali citizenship to her on the recommendation of the village municipality, said Raj Kumar Malla, chairman of the village municipality.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chairman Malla, people of the Chepang community in the village municipality have to live without citizenship even after reaching the age of 18 due to poverty. Currently, 2,500 people from the Chepang community have not obtained citizenship yet.<\/p>\n<p>As most of the areas of the municipality are remote, it is difficult to visit Hetauda to get citizenship due to lack of funds, so the citizens of those areas should be deprived of various services provided by the Government of Nepal, said Chairman Malla.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u2018We are taking initiative with CDO to run the camp. We are planning to provide citizenship in every village by conducting camps in the villages.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days ago, the municipality had taken 70 Chepangs from the village municipality to the district administration office and provided citizenship to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makawanpur: &#8211; An 80-year-old woman of Raksirang village municipality of Makawanpur has obtained citizenship from the District Administration Office, Makawanpur. Thulimaya Praja of Raksirang village municipality, who was born on Asadh-10, 1997 BS, got her citizenship on Sunday at the age of 80. Dev Kumar Gartaula, Information Officer of the District Administration Office, Makawanpur, handed over Nepali citizenship to her on the recommendation of the village municipality, said Raj Kumar Malla, chairman of the village municipality. According to Chairman Malla, people of the Chepang community in the village municipality have to live without citizenship even after reaching the age of 18 due to poverty. Currently, 2,500 people from the Chepang community have not obtained citizenship yet. As most of the areas of the municipality are remote, it is difficult to visit Hetauda to get citizenship due to lack of funds, so the citizens of those areas should be deprived of various services provided by the Government of Nepal, said Chairman Malla. He said, \u2018We are taking initiative with CDO to run the camp. We are planning to provide citizenship in every village by conducting camps in the villages. Just a few days ago, the municipality had taken 70 Chepangs from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[65,265,62,314,383],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}