Project to enhance life standard of Chepang

A project has been rolled out to enhance socio-economic condition of Chepang community in Icchakamana rural municipality.

Sauraha-based Sapana Village Social Impact (SVSI) in collaboration with the rural municipality has initiated the implementation of the project with a slogan ‘Every journey starts with a dream".

SVSI chair Dhruba Giri shared the project is aimed at transforming the lives of Chepang people through different competitions. Earlier, the same project was implemented in Kalika municipality of Chitwan.

The three-year project covering 480 households has an estimated budget of Rs 35 million to work in the areas of sanitation, house, kinder garden, education, health and economic income generation.

Ichhakamana rural municipality chair Geeta Kumari Gurung on Wednesday inaugurated the project and wished that the project would change the lives of the backward community people.