Couldn't stop myself so i'm sharing this information with you my friends.
Me and my friends we visited the Kalmochan Ghat temple area 7th Feb 2012. We met a local youth and a lady. To our surprise there was a wall being made along the Kalmochan Ghat by UN to make a park but the local had mixed reaction to the development. The reason for mixed response was because of the behavior of sadhus and Jogis who are used to open defecation. The wall would restrict these sadhus and jogis from going to the river bank for defecation and resulting to the use of open space near residential area by these sadhus and jogis to meet their purpose.
The problem is few number of public toilets in comparison to the number of jogis which is understandable. The Guthi sansthan which is the care taker of heritage area, is silent in this matter who actually need to take all measures possible to keep the area clean.
The local shared an incident which happened earlier night. A jogi was beaten up by the other group after being drunk and the reason being, the difference in the race. Most of allo gets money, even more astonishing information was the jogis being non vegetarian and are in fact given money to feed them self.
We saw group of Jogis and sadhus arriving at the place in the mean time and the reason was the Shivratri coming near. The localities shared that the number of jogis and sadhus will subsequently increase in days and come.
A lady after seeing a local person with those Jogis and Sadhus in a voice filled with anger shared the untold story of illegal drugs being traded from the place. Her anger was directed to the local government level authority who in fact offers the illegal drungs to the sadhus and jogis and who in turn sells it to the local youth and there is sharing of the commission between the authority and the sadhus.
I didn't want to believe the fact but how could i not after witnessing the foreigners in the form of sadhus smoking the hashish in the near by kutir. I could not believe when i was informed that the sadus are in fact entitled to the illegal drugs and also daily allowance on the basis of their rank.
In India, basically from where the sadus and Jogis are actually from are poisoned if seen in the city area so Nepal is in fact heaven for them in that sense and in fact above than that when ones receives so many benefits in contrast to the punishment in their country.
The question here is about the treatment of the authority, in one hand saying that the transaction of illegal drugs is considered punishable and again not bringing these sadhus inside that system and treating them. These Jogis most of them are here being lured by the befit they are getting and who are in fact not practicing what a real sadhu or jogi need to be doing.
In this situation where the locals are facing trouble and also the concerned authority is hesitant to take action what need to be done... Its another business growing inside its mask which is much bigger than we can even imagine. The risk is the local children and youths who might become one of the customer of these people who have that thing with them which can misguide the generation to self destruction.
Me and my friends we visited the Kalmochan Ghat temple area 7th Feb 2012. We met a local youth and a lady. To our surprise there was a wall being made along the Kalmochan Ghat by UN to make a park but the local had mixed reaction to the development. The reason for mixed response was because of the behavior of sadhus and Jogis who are used to open defecation. The wall would restrict these sadhus and jogis from going to the river bank for defecation and resulting to the use of open space near residential area by these sadhus and jogis to meet their purpose.
The problem is few number of public toilets in comparison to the number of jogis which is understandable. The Guthi sansthan which is the care taker of heritage area, is silent in this matter who actually need to take all measures possible to keep the area clean.
The local shared an incident which happened earlier night. A jogi was beaten up by the other group after being drunk and the reason being, the difference in the race. Most of allo gets money, even more astonishing information was the jogis being non vegetarian and are in fact given money to feed them self.
We saw group of Jogis and sadhus arriving at the place in the mean time and the reason was the Shivratri coming near. The localities shared that the number of jogis and sadhus will subsequently increase in days and come.
A lady after seeing a local person with those Jogis and Sadhus in a voice filled with anger shared the untold story of illegal drugs being traded from the place. Her anger was directed to the local government level authority who in fact offers the illegal drungs to the sadhus and jogis and who in turn sells it to the local youth and there is sharing of the commission between the authority and the sadhus.
I didn't want to believe the fact but how could i not after witnessing the foreigners in the form of sadhus smoking the hashish in the near by kutir. I could not believe when i was informed that the sadus are in fact entitled to the illegal drugs and also daily allowance on the basis of their rank.
In India, basically from where the sadus and Jogis are actually from are poisoned if seen in the city area so Nepal is in fact heaven for them in that sense and in fact above than that when ones receives so many benefits in contrast to the punishment in their country.
The question here is about the treatment of the authority, in one hand saying that the transaction of illegal drugs is considered punishable and again not bringing these sadhus inside that system and treating them. These Jogis most of them are here being lured by the befit they are getting and who are in fact not practicing what a real sadhu or jogi need to be doing.
In this situation where the locals are facing trouble and also the concerned authority is hesitant to take action what need to be done... Its another business growing inside its mask which is much bigger than we can even imagine. The risk is the local children and youths who might become one of the customer of these people who have that thing with them which can misguide the generation to self destruction.
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