At
first let me tell me you where I was heading and just give you some short
information of that district and its surroundings.
My
village lies in Gorkha District and the name of my village Chyangli. As Gorkha
is famous for the legendary Gurkha soldier who fought famous wars the history.
Neighbouring district around Gorkha are Dhading, Thanun, Lamjung and Chitwan
and the highway connecting this district with capital is Arniko highway. There
are four main rivers that runs through Gorkha district are Chepe, Daraudi,
Marsyangdi and Budhi Gandaki. Most famouse place to visit here are the main
town of Gorkha where there are some historical places to visit. Gorkha Palace
on the top of the hill was one of the best spot to visit. Another place
suggested are Manakama Temple which you can reach by cable care. These places
are easily connected by the road. If you are trekker then there are trekking
routes through Gorkha to other districts of Nepal. So let's describe what I saw
in my holidays.
The
festive mood (Dashain) and the holiday approached and I moved to my village.
With lot of beautiful scenery on the highway, I reached the small town called
Malakhu. It’s the old place famous for fried river fish. Lot of Neplase people
stops by to have variety of fried fish. I had some fried fish and moved
forward. Then I reached Kurintar after an hour drive. Kurintar is place where
lots of people come to visit Manakaman Temple. At the shore of Trishuli river
there is cable car station where lots of people move to and fro from Manakama
Temple. I just keep on moving through small town like Muglin, Abukhaireni.
Muglin is the small highway town where long routes buses stops for their
passenger to have some foods like lunches, dinner, breakfast etc. It’s the
place where buses departs to eastern Nepal and to the western Nepal.
Abukhaireni is also the small town in the Tanuhun district and market place for
people of Tanuhun district and Gorkhas district. Khaireni Bazar is the place
where we head to Gorkha district finally touching the Gorkha. So I continue to
head toward my village. From the place name Abuwa there comes a road leading to
my village. It’s a off-road driving. Road was graveled and kind of rough. It
about 25 Km from the highway. But it took me more than 45 minutes to reach my
village. This time what I noticed is that most of village on the top has been
emptied. Due to the road facility and easy access of goods people have moved to
the plain areas down the hills. Few years ago the residence of those hill tops
were Gurung and Newars. But now those lands are resided by migrant from Dhading
district. Though village looks old but now new people had occupied. Some
previous generation living there says they are having problem communicating with
new residence as they speak less Nepali and more their language. But what I
find surprising is that they are mangolians but most of them are Christian and
they go to church.
As
earlier days, still there are lot of cases of early marriages. Lack of education
is the main reason of early marriages. Girls of age between 16 to 18 had at
least one or two children. I heard that some of them had died due to the
difficulties in delivery. There are no proper health assistant so that changes
are while people are sick they have to go to the town for treatment.
World
has changed a lot in terms of farming in the developed country but the farming
techniques in my village are still the
old one. I saw they use bulls for ploughing the fields. They use animals waste
as fertilizer. But few uses modern fertilizer as well.
Still
the farming system is not modern, but what I find changes in is the toilets and
personal hygiene Few years before there were no toilets in the villages. They
used to use bushes and nearby jungles as the toilets. But due to the fund from
some INGO’s people were encouraged to build their own toilets. Another reason I
found was that government made a some kind of rules that villagers had to build
their own toilets. The rule was that whoever don’t have the toilets build will
not get the old age fund. For this reason villagers are aggressive to building
their own toilets.
Scarcity
of water is most in my villages. Still there are government fund or any other
projects for water supply. People had to walk a kilometer to get pot full of
water. Early in the morning children and women go to collect water in the
nearby pond. The water collected in the pond is also not enough for the
villager. They have to feed same water to their domestic animals like goats
cows and buffalos etc. In dry season the water is hardly enough for the
villagers.
In
the form of modern technology, there are lot of things people have access.
Since the supply of electricity in my village people had been using lot of new
technologies like, tv, mobile phones, telephones, DVD players, access to
internet, direct to home channels etc. Hope people will learn much from this
modern technology not get miss used from it.
May
be ten year from now people will develop in terms of skills, increase rate in
education, much more develop in farming as well. More young people will indulge
in farming and self-employed but not just go abroad for earnings.
