Kathmandu, Jan. 23 -- Staffers, teachers, health workers and other employees drawing their salary from Dhanauji Rural Municipality, Dhanusha, have been holding a sit-in outside the civic body's office for the last 18 days demanding pay as officials haven't disbursed their salary for six months.

With the rural municipality failing to convene the village assembly for a long time due to "political reasons", the assembly could only meet on December 2 to approve the budget for the current fiscal year 2020-21.

At least three ward chairpersons have blamed chairperson Badri Narayan Singh and chief administrative officer Kanyaiya Kumar Mishra for the delay in paying the staff their salary. But, Misrha told the Post that he has been trying to get...