By Hem Raj Ranabhat, Nawalparasi, May 18: Bulingtar Rural Municipality in East Nawalparsi has been facing an acute shortage of drinking water.

Prem Bahadur Thapa Magar, Chairman of Ward No. 2 of Buligantar, said that there was a shortage of drinking water in five villages of Ward No. 2 of the municipality.

Rup Bahadur Birkatta Magar, a social worker of Buligantar-2, complained that 50 per cent of the residents are still deprived of clean drinking water but the municipality has not allocated any budget for the drinking water project.

According to Bishnu Ranamagar of Buligantar-2, there is an acute shortage of drinking water in Mathar, Bhellauri, Bojha, Ramkot, and Tandi villages of Ward No. 2 of the municipality.

Rima Ranabhat of Dadanjheri Mathar said that the locals were forced to drink polluted water from the well after the drinking water project of Buligantar-2 collapsed, said Tanka Ale Magar of Ward No. 2 Ramkot.

It has been almost four years since the state government announced to solve the shortage of drinking water and provide clean drinking water to all, but no plan has been formulated so far, says Prem Bahadur Thapa Magar, ward chairman of Buligantar-2.

Local Lal Bahadur Ale Magar said that more than 1,900 residents were forced to drink water from wells.

Chairman of the Mathar Drinking Water Scheme, Man Bahadur Ranabhat, said that the municipality had not given any budget so far to solve the shortage of drinking water in the area.

More than 50 per cent of the people in the municipality are still forced to drink water from wells, Bishnu Bahadur Thapa Magar of the municipality said.