Kathmandu: Some people who are unemployed are filling their stomachs by begging in the streets as the lockdown continues. Some are dependent on relief. Some are using loans to pay for household expenses. There are thousands of people who cannot afford to pay rent. Farmers have not been able to bring their produce to the market. They are now more concerned with suffering than with disease.
Gyanimaya and Pasang couple Jamie from Sindhupalchowk worked. Kovid-19 was detained in Dera after the government launched a crackdown on control and prevention of the infection. Earnings stopped. It was becoming difficult for them to make ends meet in the morning / evening. "I have not been able to pay the rent since last April. I have run out of rations," said Gyanimaya.
When the relatives and friends of the village went for a walk, they did not want to go either, but they did not go when their daughter fell ill. A family of three lives at Suryabinayak-8 Adarsh Heights. The daughter is suffering from tonsillitis. "First we treated my daughter with appendix damage, then with tonsil damage, the operation ended at Rs 1.5 lakh. The doctor has said that he still needs an operation, 'said Gyanimaya. She said that she could not even get treatment for her daughter because she could not work because of the lockdown.
Ganga Duwal of Bhaktapur Municipality-9 Suryamadhi lost her mother-in-law and brother-in-law when her house collapsed due to the 2072 BS earthquake. Ganga's husband went to Qatar for foreign employment as the money from the sale of land was not enough to build a house. He has been jobless in Qatar since the outbreak of the Kovid-19 epidemic. "We were able to support a family of six, including four daughters, from my husband's earnings," said Ganga. She hopes that her husband will return soon as the government has started the process of bringing the unemployed abroad for foreign employment.
Ganga worked as a nanny in a private school. She has also become jobless after the school was closed. "All four daughters are studying. There is no income," she said. "There is not enough land to cultivate. Everything has to be bought and eaten." The rent has not risen even though four rooms have been rented out after the earthquake. "Those who rented the house before the lockdown have gone to the village, they have not returned," she said.
The locals of the valley have claimed that they have distributed relief in the first phase, provided food in the second phase and provided labor-based relief in the third phase. Although there is no problem in the daily wage, rationing of the disabled and helpless, they have not been able to pay the rent. In the event of an epidemic, neither the landlord has been able to ask for rent nor the occupant has been able to pay. "It has been four months since the house was rented," said Kumar Shrestha of Mulpani People's Boat. "Not everyone in the room has gone to work." Some husbands are abroad. They have not sent money saying that there is no work. How to ask for rent? ' He also used to trade vegetables but could not come to the vegetable farm and market as he did not have his own means.
After adding wood for the second time, the common people started returning to the village. He was convinced that it would be loosened before the third lockdown was added. But as it grows, the working class is hit hard. Sundar Tamang of Sindhuli, who works as a painter, is begging on the streets every day as she cannot find work. They are sitting on the open stage in front of Veer Hospital. 'There is no money for food when there is no work. We get up in the morning and come to the street. We eat whatever he gives us, 'he said,' even in the evening we return to the room after eating the food given by others. ' During the lockdown, sidewalk traders, students, laborers, workers and businessmen have been affected.
Taxi driver Ram Kumar Rai of Sohrakhutte has not been able to pay the rent even though he is earning a living. The taxi had to pay a monthly installment of Rs 28,000. He said that he has not been able to pay the installment for three months. "We are burning the stove of the house with the money we have," he said. Money doesn't come unless you drive a taxi, there is no other source. '
Mahendra Ram, a resident of Buddhanagar, used to make a living by sewing shoes at Baneshwor Chowk. Ram, who has a permanent home in India, is not in a position to return. "We have to pay Rs 1,400 for one person to return to India," he said. "There are five of us. We don't have to go alone. We don't have Rs 7,000." He has not paid rent for three months. She has not been able to sew shoes. Even though he has to pay 10,000 rupees monthly rent, he has not been able to pay, nor has the landlord been able to ask for it. He said that even after going out to sew shoes for a year, no customer came. "I barely earned 200 rupees yesterday," he said. He said that he got relief from the volunteers and ward offices of New Baneshwor and Buddhanagar during the lockdown. He is survived by his three sons and his wife.
Anuradha Shrestha, the operator of Supreme Fashion of Labim Mall in Lalitpur, had been running the shop since August. His group has two shops in Mal. Shrestha, who sells shoes and bags from other countries, said that not only the shop was closed due to the lockdown but also the goods were stuck in the middle. Labim Mall has not yet announced a fare waiver. "It's hard to ask for a discount. They may have started with a loan," she said. She said that she had not paid the rent for three months even though she had to pay Rs 3 to 4 lakh at the beginning. "We have not been able to pay the rent," she said. The government has also said that employees should be paid. She said that she was paying her three employees a small salary.
Tara Koirala, 59, who sells vegetables on the sidewalk of New Baneshwor, is also in trouble. She reached Mulpani after walking for four days and brought vegetables. Now she brings vegetables from Tinkune and sells them. She said that the same amount of income should not be brought from Tinkune when vegetables are brought to Mulpani. Koirala has not paid Rs 9,000 monthly rent for three months. "You are not the owner of the house. If you come, you will ask," she said.
'Treatment expenses could not be met'
Binisha Basnet, 16, of Baguwa Shikharpur in Sindhupalchok Melamchi Municipality-10 has been undergoing kidney dialysis at the Martyrs' Devotee National Transplant Center for the past four years. Vinisha's mother, who has been running a naked business to make ends meet, is unemployed. "I went to the village to get help for my daughter's treatment, but I stopped there," said Vinisha's mother Vimala. Lockdown has not been able to do business. She said that despite getting some help, she was facing financial problems as the timber was being added.
Mother and daughter are staying for Vinisha's dialysis. "Kidney patients have to go to the hospital for dialysis," said Vimala.
In the farmer's vegetable garden
It has been only six months since Saini Tamang of Lalitpur Lele Kotdanda leased four ropanis of land and started commercial animal husbandry and vegetable farming. She had taken a loan of Rs. You have to pay at the rate of Rs 10,000 per month. She said that she could not even pay the installment of the cooperative as she did not sell vegetables. "Vegetables are rotting in the fields," she said. "Even if they are sold a little, the price is not good." Laxmi Bhulan of Kotdanda has leased 6 ropanis of land to become a milk and vegetable trader. Due to the lockdown, even his vegetables are stuck in the village. "Vegetables have to be fed to cattle," she said.
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