Kathmandu, April 14
The National Association of Rural Municipalities in Nepal, an association of leaders of all rural municipalities across the country, has urged concerned local governments to provide food and other basics to the people who are leaving Kathmandu defying the lockdown.
The association issued the request as the media reported that scores of people were leaving the capital on foot after they lost their job, and subsequently income, to the lockdown restrictions.
The association has categorically requested rural municipalities of Kavre, Sindhuli, Sindhupalchok, Dhading, Nuwakot and Makawanpur districts to provide food and water to them. Whenever possible, the local governments have been urged to collect detailed information about them and forward it to the local governments of the places where the people are heading to.
