Jajarkot’s Facebook Hill drawing visitors

Locals have named a small hill on Dashera section of the Mid-Hills Highway in Chhedagad Municipality of Jajarkot as 'Facebook Hill'.  Road authorities have erected a board containing the name 'Facebook Hill' along the road section.  While authorities were searching for a local name for the area after blacktopping the road section, local youths suggested the name, according to Harihar Adhikari, a local of the area.

 Local people used to come to this place if they lost telecommunication signal in their villages. Gradually local youth started frequenting the place to use Facebook using 2G connection. This way the place earned the name 'Facebook Hill', say locals.

 "Though mobile signal was not available in different parts of Chhedegad in the past, phones used to work in this place. That is why people started calling the place as 'Facbook Hill'", Chandra Bahadur Thapa, deputy mayor of Chhedegad Municipality, said.  Facebook Hill is a popular destination now. People traveling through the road section stop here, take selfies and make TikTok videos, according to Thapa.  Telecommunication services are not available in all the settlements because of difficult topography. People still have a compulsion to climb to higher altitude to get telecommunication signal.