LALITPUR, June 23 – The people of south Lalitpur will have to wait for two more years to get electricity. Although living in the periphery of the capital, people living in villages in southern Lalitpur are still deprived of electricity.

Some 70,000 people out of the population of 396,000 in the district living in this part are still deprived of the facility , according to Deepak Dahal, a member of the District Development Committee.

Approximately 60,000 people living in the 29 VDCs in the southern belt of the district have to walk for three days to the main town centre where the district headquarters are located for using telephone, health and transportation services provided by the government.

The CPN-UML’s local people’s representatives from 19 VDCs of the area have also constituted the “South Lalitpur Electrification Movement Committee” to lobby for carrying out large-scale electrification in the area with the financial assistance from His Majesty’s Government, the DDC and the 19 VDCs., according to Madhav Poudel, chairman of one of these VDCs.

There are many places of historical and religious significance in south Lalitpur. Similarly, the area also abounds in many tourist sites.