Maoist cadre assaults female GM with offensive words

Bishnu Prasad Aryal
Lalitpur, November 9

It is more than enough. A Maoist cadre assaults the character of a female government staff on the gender-biased discrimination with mean words.

Arjun Neupane from Chauthe, nearby Sisdole landfill site in Nuwakot, phoned Dr Sumitra Amatya, General Manager at the Solid Waste Management and Resource Mobilisation Centre under the Ministry of Local Development on Sunday evening at 9:00 PM. Neupane used offensive mean words based on the gender discrimination and diplomatically threatened her to follow his suggestion.

"He phoned me last night offending and torturing me psychologically," said Amatya. "Now, I have a headache and feeling very uneasy because of his offensive words," she added. "I think I should quit my job if such discrimination continues."

Neupane, who used 'woman doesn't have Adam's apple', scolded and pressured her to fulfill his demands. "It is hard to bear such embarrassment by the night," she said. "It is not the way to talk about their demands. They must visit my office and talk about their problem," she grieved.

The SWMRMC has been providing compensation and carrying out development projects for the people affected by the Sisdole landfill site since 2005.

LALITPUR: Locals around Aletar landfill site in Nuwakot threatened that they would disrupt the garbage disposal from the next week unless 14 persons were given the job within a week. According to the Solid Waste Management and Resource Mobilisation Centre, a group of 36 persons led by Kedar Ojha submitted the ultimatum on Sunday. Another group led by Bhavana Karki also warned to obstruct the garbage disposal after nine days. Karki also demanded the SWMRMC to provide jobs for other 15 persons five days ago.

Dipendra Bahadur Oli, legal officer at the SWMRMC, said that he was also threatened many times. "The angry locals scolded me with abusive words and threatened me to break my legs many times," he added.

Neupane did not accept using insulting words against Amatya, however, realized that it was wrong to phone by night. "I told her on phone to be responsible and address the people's demands assured by the government," he said. "The government did not allocated budget for the roads and development in the local area in time."

Interestingly, the annual fiscal budget is yet to be approved even after the five months from presentation of annual budget and programmes in the parliament due to the Maoist obstruction in the parliamentary meeting of the Constituent Assembly.

Advocate Meera Dhungana said that it was crime and example of insecurity in the country. "There is law against such discrimination but implementation is very poor in the country," she added.