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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 programs to form children's clubs in every locality, and to end child marriage and child labour has already been completed.

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

The Nepal Police have collected over Rs 2.24 billion in revenue from different fines and penalties in five months of the current fiscal year 2081/82 BS. 

As part of their special action plan, the Nepal Police have launched a drive to take various actions and prevent illegal activities.

Spokesperson of Nepal Police, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Bishwa Adhikari said that the revenue was collected from 10 different categories including seizure of illegal goods, traffic action, unlawful money transfer, gold and river-based mining.

Spokesperson Adhikari informed that Rs 905.7 million (40.42 percent) revenue was collected from the seizure of illegal goods.

He informed that Rs 520.7 million was collected from traffic fines, Rs 427.4 million from the implementation of the court verdicts, Rs 262.9 million from the recovery of illegal gold and silver and Rs 43.7 million from the recovery of illegal currency.

Similarly, Rs 29 million was collected from undisclosed sources and Rs 12 million from the seizure of illegal timber and Rs 18.3 from the control of illegal money transfer/trade, the Police Headquarters shared.

According to the details from July to December, Rs 11.6 million was collected from illegal livestock control campaigns and Rs 9.2 million more revenue was collected from illegal river-borne mining.

Most of the parts of the country will witness cloudy weather due to the partial influence of the western low pressure systems.

According to the Meteorological Forecasting Division of the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, the weather will be partly to generally cloudy this afternoon with chances of light rain in the hilly areas and snowfall in the mountainous areas on Monday.

Meteorologist Binu Maharjan of the Division said the weather will be generally cloudy in the eastern region of Karnali, Lumbini, Gandaki, Bagmati and Madhes provinces and partly cloudy in Koshi and Sudurpaschim provinces.

The weather will be partly to generally cloudy in the hilly and mountainous regions of the country this afternoon.

Light snowfall will occur at some places of the high hilly and mountainous regions of Koshi and Gandaki provinces tonight. "There will be dense cloud on Monday than today with the possibility of light rainfall in the hilly regions of Bagmati, Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces," he said.

The minimum temperature in Kathmandu has increased slightly compared to Saturday.

According to Division, the minimum temperature in Kathmandu was recorded at 7.2 degrees Celsius this morning.

It was recorded at 5.9 degrees Celsius on Saturday. Meteorologist Maharjan said that the minimum temperature has increased slightly due to cloudy sky in Kathmandu at night. 

Eminent ophthalmologist Prof Dr Sanduk Ruit has been awarded with this year's Shreepati Social Service National Award in Pokhara.
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The award, instituted by Shreepati Koirala Guthi based in Pokhara Metropolis-9, Mahendrapul, has been conferred on Ruit in recognizing his contribution to keep the country's name high at international level in the area of health and humanitarian services.

Chairperson of Pokhara Ward-9 Chair Dipendra Marsani among others presented Rs 222,222 along with Shreepati Social Service Medal and copper plaque to Dr Ruit, who is also the Executive Director and founder of the Tilganga Eye Foundation, at the 32nd Annual General Meeting of Guthi on Saturday.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Ruit said that the award motivated him to become further responsible and pursue more social service.

Similarly, senior journalist Narayan Karki has been honoured with the Social Journalism Award.

In recognition of his contribution to social service through journalism, he was honoured with a cash prize of Rs 22,222 along with a shawl and a letter of appreciation.

Secretary of Shreepati Koirala Guthi, Nawaraj Koirala said that Shreepati Social Service National Award has been given to personalities working in the fields of disaster relief and relief assistance, education, culture, health services, science technology, social awareness, humanitarian service and community development for the country and people.

"Dr Ruit has been honoured for his contribution in the field of humanitarian services, especially in eye treatment," he said.

A six-member committee comprising social workers and intellectuals was formed under the coordination of Guthi Chair Phanindra Raj Koirala to select the awardees.

Earlier, Maiti Nepal, National Innovation Centre, Padma Bhawani Model Vidyashram of Sarlahi and Bindhyavasini Religious Area Development Committee of Pokhara have received the award.