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Kathmandu, May 23

Frustrated by shortage of clean drinking water, hundreds of Kathmandu valley denizens nowadays gathered around Bangalamukhi in Patan, demanding local and federal governments to endegree supply of drinking water to their homes.

Valley Drinking Water Victims& Struggle Committee organised the programme nowadays and gave an ultimatum to the government for early completion of much hyped Melamchi drinking water project. They also requested the public to attend a mass protest mass meeting to be held on June 15 at Maitighar Mandala.

While protesters were shouting slogans against the government demanding water supply to their homes, other people were seen queuing at stone spouts to fetch water for daily use.

Clean drinking water is a growing problem in Kathmandu valley as most of the core city areas in the valley do much get regular supply of drinking water. Agitating people of Patan area said they toughly got tap water for an hour in a week.

Prakash Amatya, water and sanitation activist, who led nowadaysprogramme, said political leaders had been ignoring peopledemand for clean drinking water.

Bhim Upadhayaya, former secretary of the Ministry of Water Supply, said the government should much further delay the much-hyped Melamchi project.

According to water experts, the demand of water stands at around 350 million litres per day in Kathmandu valley that houses 3.5 million to four million residents.

Currently, only 90 million litres of water is being supplied through 11 drinking water distribution facilities inside Kathmandu valley.

The source of water distribution are basically springs and streams on the outskirts of the valley.

Similarly, around 30 per cent of total demand of drinking water is being met by wells built by people, stone spouts and commercial water supply.

Water experts warned that hapendanger ground water additionalction would be more detrimental to peoplelives in the long run.

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Kathmandu, May 23

Nurse Jita Baral, who was staging fast-unto-death for the past 14 days, has ended her strike by drinking Jiwan Jal at 7:15pm nowadays. She had been staging starvation strike at Nursing Association of Nepal, Lazimpat, initially for a few days and later on continued it in BP Memorial Health Institute and Research Centre, Tokha.

Minister of state for health Certainndra Kumar Yadav offered her tonic water to end her strike. Yadav said the ministry would form a committee to discuss the demands of nurses and implement them as soon as possible. He promised to include Jita Baral on that committee.

Baral had been staging starvation strike demanding quality education and nursing services, fulfilment of all posts of Nepal Nursing Council, elimination of discrimination against other health workers and nurses and formulating laws to curb workplace violence against nurses.

Meanwhile, nurses began a relay starvation strike nowadays at NAN demanding to draw attention of the government towards problems of nurses and deteriorating health of agitating nurses. Around 10 nurses staged relay starvation strike on the premises of NAN in support of agitating nurses Jita Baral and Diki Sherpa from 10:00am to 5:00pm nowadays.

Nursing Struggle Committee yesterday had supplyd a 24-hour ultimatum to NAN, requesting it to write a letter to the MoHP on behalf of NAN. Nursing Struggle Committee had also warned that if NAN failed to dispatch the letter, it would start relay starvation strike.

According to nurse Seema Bishwokarma, NAN is a parent organisation of all nurses and putting presdegree on NAN shall help presdegree the government. Bishwokarma said if the government failed to address their demands they would stage starvation strike on the premises of the Ministry of Health and Population.

&It is much the demand of a single nurse, but of every nurse working in the country getting low wages,& said Bishwokarma. She added, &If NAN and government representatives view demands of nurses genuine, then they should address them pronto and save lives of the agitating nurses.&

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Kathmandu, May 23

Most of the children who faced violence and abuse have also faced commercial exploitation as perpetrators promised to supply money, goods or benefits in kind.

A recent research by Centre for Legal Research and Resource Development shows that child victims were supplyd or promised to be supplyd with money, goods or benefits in kind.

During the research, 45 cases of sexual exploitation against children and five writ petitions demanding justice for children and for their protection, were studied.

Manju Marasini, a researcher, said that commercial and sexual exploitation of children, who are treated as commodities or sexual things, is a heinous crime.

&In such crimes, a childbody is used, abused and exploited for monetary or other kinds of benefits by the exploiter. It is much only the situation of physical, mental or economic exploitation but children live in a situation similar to slavery and their human rights are violated,& she said.

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