After brawl at Khalanga, Jumla to distribute salt from ward offices

From next month, the Salt Trading Corporation in Khalanga, the headquarters of Jumla district, will be making subsidised salt available at all ward offices in the district.

The new arrangement is expected to make life easier for the people from the district’s far-flung villages who would otherwise have to go to Khalanga, the district headquarters, and queue for hours at the corporation’s depot to buy subsidised salt.

On Sunday, a brawl broke out among the locals who had reached the depot to buy salt. People who were queuing up outside the depot waiting for their turn got angry when latecomers started cutting the line. Khagendra Malla, head of the Salt Trading Corporation office in Jumla, said such confrontations occur regularly although there is no shortage of salt.
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https://kathmandupost.com/karnali-province/2023/07/20/after-brawl-at-khalanga-jumla-to-distribute-salt-from-ward-offices