Dhungkharka is a Small Paradise

There are very beautiful valleys in Nepal. If its beauty is to be destroyed and it is made according to the architecture suitable for the environment, then the farming area, residential area, parking area for vehicles, places where students play sports would have been built in a way that suits the valley. We have already damaged Kathmandu Valley, Pokhara Valley and Hetouda Valley, Butwal Valley, Narayanghat Bharatpur Valley, Dang Ghorahi Valley and Gaighat Valley - have already started to deteriorate.

Now let's look at the smaller valleys. Jiri valley is fine. The Falbas valley of Tansental is also heading in the direction of deterioration. Manthali has started to form but now it is in a situation where it is difficult to avoid. Sindhulimarhi valley has the potential to improve, but if we do not think about it soon, there is also the possibility of deterioration. If we talk only about Kavre district, Panchkhal, Bhakundebesi, Dhungkhark, Balthali are very good, but it seems that they may deteriorate in 10/20 years.

I am now trying to discuss the stone. Dhunghark is a very beautiful valley near Kathmandu. Sitting in the lap of the green forest of Mahabharata, the forest of Mahabharata provided water as much as needed, the settlement was not too big, Dhungkhark was a place that was saved from the feudal tendency which was occupied only by the nobles and did not allow others to do it. There is also a group of young people who are eager to do something in education, who want health, agriculture and environment to be of suitable type and have started to save it by sitting there themselves. I had seen that the same type of group brought the market of Dhulikhel to a state of panic.

I met Krishna Prasad Sapkota, who is involved in the development of Kavre district. His entry into the career field of his life began with the establishment of a primary school near his home in that valley. While playing a leading role in establishing the school locally, not only the establishment of the school but also while working, the first fire of the development of the village in Nepal was the Filingorupi school. Probably, as it is the case everywhere, it has started to be seen that opening of schools and other developments in other villages has helped to speed up. The school is also flourishing and other developments are also flourishing. Towards the end of the Panchayat system, i.e. after the establishment of the multi-party democratic system in 2047, village panchayats became village development committees, city panchayats became municipalities, and district panchayats became district development committees. Even though the elections of those bodies were held locally, they started to be held on the basis of political parties. Krishna Prasad Sapkota joined the left-wing Nepal Communist Party (Unified Marxist-Leninist) party and became active in local politics after winning the election as the chairman of the District Development Committee in 2049. After that, winning the 2054 election, he later became the national president of the District Development Committee Federation for many years. I was introduced to him not only in the politics of Kavre district, but as an active person at the local level as well, when even the donor nations came to respect him. In an environment where his relationship with all village development committees and city development committees of the district is increasing, his contact with the village development committee of Dhunghark Bheg has also increased a lot.

The development infrastructure includes schools, health posts, drinking water, irrigation, local community forests, roads, electricity, telephones, nearby Mahabharat Parbat, Narayansthan on the summit, Bhanjang to the south, Hetauda from Bhanjang to the Terai and Simra, all the inner and Narayani zones, Gurans and Salla. Dhunghark is a place where you can see the attractive view of the forests, the Panauti Valley to the north as well as the mountain peaks of Dhulikhel and Nagarkot, the mountains on the horizon, especially Langtang, Ganesh Himal, Dorje Lakpa and Gaurishankar region, the Namud religious site of Namobuddha and the beautiful view of the mountain range of Dapcha. . Small, full of greenery, the local people are engaged in agriculture, the produced goods are sold through Panauti and Khopasi markets to Banepa and they are engaged in selling their produce, vegetables and other milk and meat products.

The local youth and secondary school teachers of Dhunghark have established a library and I am on the advisory board of the READ ie Rural Education and Development program. Gradually, I began to take my loved ones with mesmerizing them saying 'how nice that place is'. There is also a desire to build a small hut and live there. I am happy to see the activity of the local youth. I have been there many times. When I look at it, it seems like a more charming valley than the beauty of the valleys of Switzerland, Germany and Britain. Sometimes it seems that there are beautiful valleys in addition to the lakes. I am not only a nature lover. I was reaching there, being lured by that. Since Krishna Prasad Sapkota, Chandra Bahadur Khadka (Co-Secretary of Pre-Education) were from the same area, I started talking to them about those issues.