{"id":2997,"date":"2024-06-03T17:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2024-06-03T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:42:23","slug":"lumbini-governments-new-policies-and-programmes-aim-to-discourage-migration-from-hill-to-terai-child-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/lumbini-governments-new-policies-and-programmes-aim-to-discourage-migration-from-hill-to-terai-child-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumbini government&#8217;s new policies and programmes aim to discourage migration from hill to Terai, child marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Tulasipur (Dang), June 3: The Lumbini province government has presented its policies and programmes for the upcoming fiscal year 2081-82 (2024-25) before the Province Assembly. Province Chief Amik Sherchan presented them in the Assembly today.<\/p>\n<p>The government has pledged a feasibility study to establish a community childcare centre at four locations: Ghorahi, Lumbini, Butwal, and Nepalgunj within the province.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, the Province Chief said the concept aims to retain working women who are likely to quit their jobs after having a baby due to their prescribed roles of taking care of the child.<br \/>\nThe province government assures of coming up with a 10-year strategy to combat early marriage and make the province free from child marriage by 2030 AD. It has announced to provide self-defense training for girls, establish a province-level child protection home, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Subsidy in agriculture based on production, modernization of agriculture with the use of technology, a feasibility study for the Budhha Touristic Circuit: Lumbini-Dhorpatan-Dunai-Jumla-Khalanga-Rara-Kankrebihar-Kohalpur-Lumbini&#8217;, promotion of trans-province cooperation, construction of disabled-friendly roadways and the launch of a special drinking water programme at Koilabas point of Dang are among the announcements incorporated in the government plans and policies.<\/p>\n<p>The government has pursued policies of discouraging migration from the hill to Terai by establishing model settlements within the villages, building a herb processing industry within the province, launching awareness programmes to minimize human-wildlife conflict, operating special classes for autistic children, and ensuring an internet facility for higher education students.<br \/>\nSimilarly, it had pledged to recognise the mother tongue as an official language and manage air ambulance facilities for the rescue of expectant mothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulasipur (Dang), June 3: The Lumbini province government has presented its policies and programmes for the upcoming fiscal year 2081-82 (2024-25) before the Province Assembly. Province Chief Amik Sherchan presented them in the Assembly today. The government has pledged a feasibility study to establish a community childcare centre at four locations: Ghorahi, Lumbini, Butwal, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}