Siddharthanagar municipality in Rupandehi district has started collecting data of the daily wagers affected by the nationwide lockdown. The municipality will manage food and other support for them, said the municipality mayor Hari Prasad Adhikari. A meeting of the municipality executive committee took a decision to this effect on Thursday.

The meeting also decided to set up a disaster management fund worth over Rs 1.1 million to fight coronavirus. It formed a nine-member committee led by mayor Adhikari to run the fund. Mayor Adhikari donated Rs 21,000 to the fund and deputy mayor Rs 15,000. Thirteen wards of the municipality also donated Rs 13,000 each.

Ward chairpersons and members have been asked to coordinate supply of essentials and medicines within the town, said the municipality information officer Dev Prasad Gyawali. Twenty Nepalis who were stranded at Sunauli transit while returning home from India were rescued, he said.

Indian security officials coordinated the rescue, and the rescued Nepalis have been quarantined, said Chief District Officer Mahadev Panta.

Of them, 11 have been quarantined at Yadyodaya Dudhnath Tharu Multiple Campus for 14 days, said Spokesperson of Sudhdhodhan rural municipality, Rajendra Kandel.

Likewise, 10 have been quarantined at Durgadatta secondary school at Shankar nagar in Tilottama municipality and eight at Janata secondary school at Amuwa.