Myagdi. People’s representatives and employees of Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality in Myagdi have descended on the city in search of service recipients. People’s representatives and chief employees have reached the city with a mobile camp to provide services including renewal of the list of beneficiaries receiving social security allowance, birth registration, relationship verification, and recommendation.

The rural municipality, which provided services through a mobile camp in Kathmandu on August 18 and 19, has been operating a camp at the Nepal Chantyal Association hall in Nadipur, the provincial capital, Pokhara, since Wednesday. On the first day, about 150 beneficiaries receiving social security allowance received services related to renewal of the list of beneficiaries receiving social security allowance, birth registration, relationship verification, and recommendation for citizenship, informed Resham Punmagar, vice-chairman of the rural municipality.

“There is a mandatory system to renew the beneficiary list with ‘biometrics’ for allowances every year,” he said. “Even if there is a name in the rural municipality, senior citizens, disabled, and sick beneficiaries living in the market face difficulty, hassle, and pain in reaching the village during the rainy season, so we have made arrangements for the people’s representatives and employees to go to the city and renew.”

Rural municipality chair Prem Prasad Pun said that for the convenience of service recipients, people’s representatives and ward secretaries have reached the city and provided services. Along with the chair and vice-chair Pun, all seven ward chairmen and three ward secretaries have provided services at the camp. In the last fiscal year, 2,938 people in Dhaulagiri were distributed Rs 105.84 million social security allowance.

Despite settling in the city market for service facilities and opportunities, many have not migrated formally. In the last fiscal year, 76 families migrated to Dhaulagiri, while 10 families came. (RSS)