Baglung Municipality declared as child-friendly city

GALKOT (Baglung): Baglung Municipality has been declared as a child-friendly municipality after all 14 wards of the municipality fulfilled the 51 indicators of the National Strategy of Child-Friendly Local Governance.

For this, the municipality had already invested around Rs 30 million in social development and construction of child-friendly infrastructures in the last two years.

Earlier, Galkot Municipality of Baglung district was declared child-friendly.

According to Baglung Municipality Mayor Basanta Kumar Shrestha, child-friendly infrastructures were constructed, various interaction programmes were conducted and facilitators deployed at the ward-level. He added that all indicators related to child-friendly schools, infrastructures and child health were fulfilled.

The municipality has allocated Rs 12.5 million in the current fiscal year alone for carrying out all activities and programmes for declaring a child-friendly local government. The budget includes construction of child-friendly school buildings, drinking water facilities and toilets.

Mayor Shrestha said that the campaign to include children in social programmes to form children’s clubs in every locality, and to end child marriage and child labour has already been completed.

As he said, now the focus has been on preparing a national plan for sustainability with the announcement of the Municipality as a child-friendly city.