Kanchanpur, Dec. 9 -- After major festivals end and farming work is completed, most Tharu youths from Kanchanpur traditionally travel to India for work. Many go as far as Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, while some go even further to big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. However, some Tharu youths are staying in their villages and earning a decent living throughout the year through construction work.

One of them is Subarna Chaudhary of Hasulia in ward 3 of Kailari Rural Municipality, Kailali. Living with his family in Mahendranagar, the district headquarters of Kanchanpur, for the past two decades, he has made a name for himself in house construction. A trained mason himself, he now takes contracts for large houses and earns wel...