Persons with disabilities have been staging a sit-in protest for the past 13 days in front of the District Administration Office in Siraha, demanding the right to earn a living. Carrying the slogan “Give us jobs or let us work”, the protesters say they have been left without any source of income for the past five months.
According to the demonstrators, many of them had been sustaining their families by bringing small quantities of grocery items from nearby border markets and selling them locally in Siraha. They say the small-scale trade was their only means of survival. However, the administration stopped the import of such goods five months ago, bringing their earnings to a complete halt.