Baglung. Around 300 households live in this village of Nisikhola rural municipality-5. Although some households use electricity through solar panels, most of them depend on local tuki and diyas. Niseldhar, located in Dhorpatan, nepal’s only hunting reserve, has access to drinking water and roads, but electricity facilities have not yet reached.

Most of the locals migrate from Nisi village and live here. The residents of Nisi, who used to reach Niseldhar only during the rainy season, have now started living here permanently. Hundreds of locals have been facing problems due to lack of access to electricity despite the expansion of settlements in Nisseldhar. Most of the locals of Nisi live in Nisseldhar from May to September. They have been spending the night in darkness till now.

Until a decade ago, the state did not care about the expansion of electricity. Chandra Bahadur Gharti Magar, a local, said that hundreds of locals have been living in Nisseldhar for 12 months but they have not been able to get electricity facilities. According to him, the number of locals living permanently in Nisseldhar has increased in the last five years. Gharti Magar said that the people who eat should spend the night with various electronic devices.

“Even in today’s time, we have not been able to use the electricity service, the government did not show interest to bring electricity to such a large settlement, earlier we used to take kerosene from the market and burn it, now it is difficult to get kerosene in the market after getting electricity in all the places,” he said. ’

Pan Kumari BK, a local, said that due to lack of electricity in the village, it is very difficult to spend the night in darkness, listen to the radio, watch television and charge mobile phones. Though Nepal Telecom had provided the facility to make phone calls by installing towers two years ago, it would not be allowed to charge due to lack of electricity, he said. BK said that he has to walk for two hours to Bhuji of Dhorpatan municipality-9 to charge his mobile phone.

BK said, “There was a lot of problem in calling relatives earlier, the compulsion to reach the high hills after climbing up for two to three hours has now ended, but in the absence of electricity, we have to go far to charge, if there was electricity in the village, it would have been much easier, we listen to the radio from the battery, we have not been able to get a television horn.” ’

Prem Bahadur Gharti Magar, vice-chair of Nisikhola rural municipality, said they were collaborating with the central and state governments to provide electricity to Niseldhore. According to him, although it was said that electricity would be taken from the local hydropower project by pulling the wire, no work was done. Vice-chair Gharti Magar said that electricity will be lit in Nisikhola by next year.