By Shiva Shankar Mishra
Bara, July 23: In Mahagadhimai Municipality, whenever the citizens aren’t able to go to the bank, the bank goes to the citizens.
Banks have been going to the houses of single women, senior citizens, people with disabilities and other residents of Mahagadhimai Municipality, Bara, who are unable to come to their offices to collect their social security allowance.
“There are 3012 people living in Ward No 11 of the municipality and we go to the homes of the frail people to give them their allowance,” said Aashish Shrestha, assistant manager of the Ganjbhawanipur branch of Rastriya Banijya Bank (RBB).
“Recently, we provided 82-year-old Shanti Devi Brahmani and 86-year-old Bedami Devi Kalwarin of Mahagadhimai – 10 a total of Rs. 24,000 each, as their allowance of eight months,” said Arbind Kumar Jha, manager of the same branch of RBB.
Kalwarin passed away four days after receiving the money. “Mother had been sending me to the bank every day for the last two weeks to inquire about the social security,” her son Radheshankar Prasad Kalwar told The Rising Nepal. “It was as if she was hanging on just to receive the money.”
A total of Rs. 9.5 million was disbursed in ward no. 2 as allowance, Rs. 9 million in ward no. 1, Rs. 5.2 million in ward no. 4, Rs. 9.4 million in ward no. 6, Rs. 1.8 million in ward no. 7 and Rs. 5 million in ward no. 11. Similarly, more than Rs. 10 million has been disbursed in wards 3, 5 and 10 and the bank has not yet received the money to be disbursed in wards 8 and 9, informed Jha.
In the municipality, 2,000 single women, 3,000 senior citizens, 3,000 people with disabilities, 1,000 physically weak people and 600 elderly Dalit individuals have been receiving the social security allowance.