{"id":49740,"date":"2026-06-17T21:45:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49740"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:00:51","slug":"minister-pledges-efforts-to-socially-integrate-dalit-families-from-all-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/minister-pledges-efforts-to-socially-integrate-dalit-families-from-all-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister pledges efforts to socially integrate Dalit families from all districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, June 17: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Khadga Raj Paudel said Dalit families from all districts would be socially assimilated through homestay programme.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said this while responding to queries raised by lawmakers during the discussion on the heading related to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation under the Appropriation Bill, 2083 in the House of Representatives today.<br \/>\n&#8216;A budget bears ideas and perspectives that development should also end inequality,&#8217; he said, adding, &#8216;We have incorporated a programme to run one Dalit homestay in each of the country&#8217;s 77 districts.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Minister Paudel argued that Dalit homestays are expected to be instrumental in fostering social integration between other communities and Dalits. &#8216;We have put in place arrangements for government agencies to mandatorily conduct programmes focusing Dalit homestays,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Paudel claimed that there has been no discrimination in budget allocation at the community level. He clarified that the Buddhist philosophy and monastery development programmes are intended to carry out their related works.<\/p>\n<p>He said that a lump sum budget has been allocated to preserve the multiethnic and multi-religious traditions and culture. Some constructions need to be done at local level considering the archaeological significance of certain heritage sites.<br \/>\nThe Tourism Minister clarified that Rs 500,000 has been set aside for the study for monastery construction. Budget has also been allocated to move forward with the strategic pilgrimage in a quadrilateral model.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the government has allocated over Rs 8.2 billion for trekking route development and the preservation of cultural and historical heritage sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 17: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Khadga Raj Paudel said Dalit families from all districts would be socially assimilated through homestay programme. The minister said this while responding to queries raised by lawmakers during the discussion on the heading related to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49740"}],"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=49740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49743,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49740\/revisions\/49743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}