Kalikot, Jan. 31 -- For Imaluja Chaudhary, 18, from ward 3 of Tikapur Municipality in Kailali, Kalikot was nothing as she had imagined. She travelled to the district to apply for recruitment as an election police officer and found herself overwhelmed by the landscape.

"Seeing the frightening hills made my heart pound," she said after reaching Manma Bazar, the district headquarters. "I felt dizzy during my first journey through the hills."

Chaudhary, who hopes to join the Nepal Police in the future, said she chose Kalikot to gain experience through election police recruitment. "There is hardly any development here," she said. "Even though it is not dusty like the Tarai, there is a shortage of drinking water in Manma."

Chaudhary passed t...