KATHMANDU, March 24 -- A parliamentary committee has been found to be preparing a field report on Chhaupadi deaths without any of its members visiting the incident site in the district of Bajura despite spending two days in the district headquarters, Martadi.

A team of parliamentarians which had reached Bajura on a UNDP-sponsored trip summoned the victims at Dhamkanne, seven kilometers away from the incident site, and returned to Kathmandu.

The parliamentarians blamed extreme cold for not being able to visit the actual crime site.

A nine-member sub-committee of the Women and Social Committee comprising eight lawmakers, an official and two representatives from the UNDP embarked for Aagaupani Pandusen of Bajura on January 30 for a field ...