Two minor girls left in lurch as parents relish second marriages

Younger sister Roshni Baduwal with her grandmother pose for a portrait in Badimalika Municipality of Bajura district, on Friday, March 01, 2019. Photo: Prakash Singh

BAJURA: Seven-year-old Asmita Baduwal and her five-year-old sister Roshni of Badimalika Municipality-9 are helpless after their parents abandoned them and tied the knots separately, in Bajura district.

Dev Baduwal, father of the two girls, eloped with a married woman of the same municipality to India. According to Ward Chair of Badimalika Municipality-8 Prakash Rawal, their mother also married another man and left her children behind.

Meanwhile, the elder Ashmita is residing with her grandmother in the village and her sister is living at her mother’s maternal house in the district.

Her grandmother Sunmati Rawal said, “I brought the younger one with us after their parents deserted them.”

“Even I am struggling to meet my family’s ends and it would be difficult for me to raise her,” Rawal lamented, adding lack of a birth registration certificate has hindered Roshni’s admission to a local school.

Moreover, failure to collect their parent’s citizenship certificate before the latter eloped has deprived them of birth registration certificates.

Meanwhile, their grandmother struggles to make ends meet as she is compelled to work as a domestic helper at other’s home in old age.

Despite the Baduwal sisters’ plight, the government has failed to take any measures to support them, one of the locals shared.

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