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Where folks spend Rs 500 just to pay electricity tariff of Rs 80

DILIP POUDEL BAGLUNG, Aug 10: How do you feel if you have to buy a two-way bus ticket that costs around Rs 500 just to reach the district headquarters to pay monthly electricity tariff of Rs 80? Thousands of people, especially from villages such as Kushmishera, Binamare, Damek, Sarkuwa, Arjewa, Jaidi, Chhisti, Rangkhani, Raydanda, Amalachaur, Narayansthan and Painyupata VDCs in southern remote belt of the district, are compelled to live with this irony- as the Nepal Electricity Authority has no revenue collection centers in the region. The residents of Kushmishera VDC, the southernmost part of the district are affected the most as they are compelled to pay up to Rs 500 to reach the district headquarters just to pay the bill. And if they do not make it on time-that is before the NEA´s revenue counters close-they will have to bear the extra burden of lodging and food. The Secretary of Kushmishera VDC Durga Prasad Sharma complains that their repeated appeals to the state-run au...