Myagdi. MYAGDI: Malika Rural Municipality of Myagdi district has honoured 25 couples for inter-caste marriages with the Dalit community. On the occasion, 25 couples marrying from inter-caste were honoured with Rs 3,500 each.

Rural municipality chair Beg Prasad Garbuja said the felicitation programme was organised to disseminate the message of ending discrimination by encouraging inter-caste marriages.

“There is still a big wall of racial discrimination in our society. There is a need to end the caste discrimination that has persisted for centuries. “We have tried to give a message to end caste-based discrimination by honouring senior citizens and youths from all seven wards of the rural municipality who have inter-caste marriages with Dalits,” he said. ’

Chairman Garbuja, vice-chairperson Laxmi Devi Gharti Pun, Chief Administrative Officer Harishchandra Dhakal, ward chairs Udaya Bahadur Budhathoki, Path Bahadur Roka, executive members Pratikshya Rasaili, Dal Bahadur Khadkathoki and acting chair of Ward No. 1 Mansingh Sapkota among others felicitated the students.

Executive member Pratiksha Rasaili said that the rural municipality has launched such a programme for the first time, saying the couple who have been facing various types of social discrimination and invisible violence after inter-caste marriages were honoured.