No food shortage in Bajura: NFC

December 6, 2005
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December 06, 2005

KATHMANDU:   Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) has refuted news reports that there is food shortage in Bajura district.

Talking to Nepalnews on Tuesday, Deputy General Manager of Nepal Food Corporation, Prabhat Chandra Pandey, refuted news reports that the district is facing the food shortage and people are fleeing from the district due to famine.

He said, “I was surprised after reading the news as we have been regularly supplying food in the district and there is no famine till date.”

He informed that NFC supplied 570 quintals of food grains to the Kolti area, which supplies food to eastern parts of the district, in last four months of the fiscal year.

He quoted Chief District Officer of the Bajura district as saying that he has no information about the famine in the district.

However, Ratan Bahadur Chand, an employee at the regional office of Nepal Food Corporation in Dhangadhi, which is supplying food to Bajura, informed Nepalnews over phone that the problem might have emerged as the food have to be supplied to eastern part of the district through airplane.

He informed that they had supplied enough food through road in the district headquarter adding that the food grains sent to the district headquarters did not reach the eastern region of the district due to its remoteness.

Earlier, a news report said that over 700 local residents of remote hilly Bajura district in the far west were compelled to go to India in the last two days, due to famine.

Villagers, including women and children, of Sappata VDC in eastern Bajura left for Poudi Gadhwal in India via Gaddachowki transit point on Sunday and Monday, the report added.

Residents of Rungin, Bichha, Wai, Jukot, Kotila, Pandusen, Jagannath, Gotri, Baandh and Kolti VDCs of the district have also been hit hard by food shortage, the report adds.