. Bhawani Prasad Regmi, 52, of Chamunda Bindrasaini municipality in Dailekh district was found carrying a load in Nainital, the tourist city of Uttarakhand, India, on Wednesday. Regmi, who has been earning his livelihood by working as a daily wage labourer in Nainital for the past three decades, hoped that the government formed after the recently concluded House of Representatives election would uplift the working class.

} “Nainital is a tourist destination for the well-to-do people and people from many places come here to escape the heat,” said Regmi. I hope that the changes that have taken place for good governance in the country after the Jenji movement will create employment opportunities in the country. He said that he used to get a wage of seven hundred rupees in the evening by carrying heavy loads throughout the day.

Regmi is just one example. Many Nepali workers like him have been working as daily wage earners in Nainital for a long time. They are hoping that the next government will provide employment in the country. “We are happy with the news that youths will run the country and hope that the younger generation will get an environment to work within the country,” said Bam Bahadur Thakuri, 65, of Dailekh. Thakuri, who has been working in Nainital for the past twenty years, said that he is managing his household expenses with his income. “It has been twenty years since I started visiting Nainital”, he said, adding, “More than one thousand Nepalis are working as daily wage labourers in the Nainital area alone”. ’