Isma Rural Municipality has been renewing social security allowance ID cards for the senior citizens, the sick, and people with disabilities by visiting households directly. The municipality is renewing ID cards for individuals who face difficulties due to age, illness, or disability, as per official records. The rural municipality is planning to deliver social security allowances directly to their homes as well, said Deputy Chairperson Parbati Kuwar.
Uma Saru of Isma Rural Municipality–2 expressed her happiness after receiving her ID cards at her home. She has been bedridden for the past two years due to paralysis. Similarly, Ishwari Bohora, 89, of Hastichaur, Isma Rural Municipality–2, is unable to walk on her own due to old age. Her son, Dambar Bohora, said that the renewal of social security allowance ID cards at their home by municipal staff provided great relief. Dambar Bohora, who lost his right leg in an accident in 1996, expressed hope that the government would also deliver the allowance to their home, as he is disabled and his mother is sick and elderly, which would be a huge relief.
MSI Computer Operator Balram Khanal of the Social Security and Registration Unit stated that this initiative was taken as allowances would be stopped if the cards were not updated. There are 3,325 beneficiaries in Isma Rural Municipality. Khanal informed that the municipality also renewed 147 social security allowance ID cards and registered one new beneficiary during a visit to Butwal. However, renewal for 800 more beneficiaries is still pending.
