Deteriorating 'Panchayat House' repaired

Dhorpatan (Baglung), Aug 8: Tamankhola municipality has repaired a 'Panchayat House' located at Taman village by spending one million rupees.    

The house (ghar) that was repaired and maintained by mobilizing local resources would be developed as a museum and library, it is shared.    

Maintenance was carried out to revitalize the house through a budget of Rs 1 million allocated by Tamankhola rural municipality for the fiscal year 2080/81 BS and mobilization of kind labour.    

Currently ward no. 3 of the rural municipality is operating its office in the building. Ward chair Jhak Bahadur Budha Magar said the office would be shifted to a new house as soon as it was completed and the Panchayat house would be converted into a library.    

During the Panchayat period, the house had offices of the village panchayat chief, deputy chief and other office-bearers. The then Taman village panchayat office used to provide services to the locals of Lukurban, Khunga, Narja, Khungkhani, Taman and Lammela from the same building.  (RSS)