{"id":220,"date":"2020-10-18T17:05:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T11:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2020-10-18T17:05:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T11:20:46","slug":"ban-on-fair-and-jatra-during-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Ban on fair and jatra during festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-221 \" src=\"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5f8bb11223a81_1602986999_dd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5f8bb11223a81_1602986999_dd.jpg 700w, https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5f8bb11223a81_1602986999_dd-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/>Jajarkot and Rukum west have put a ban on fairs and jatra or processions considering the rising cases of COVID-19. The Bheri municipality, Barekot executive meeting took a decision in this regard while the district disaster management committee of Rukum West put a ban on religious and festival-time fairs.<br \/>\nRamidanda, Karkijyula, Sugukhal mela or fair are famous in Barekot while religious fair takes place in Rukum since Ghatasthapana. All the fairs have been banned by issuing a notice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nReligious activities however can be carried out by observing social distancing and following the health protocol, said Chief District Officer of Rukum West Badrinath Gaihre. A standard operation procedure has also been developed for the upcoming festivals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe district hosts a number of religious, traditional and festival-focused fairs and jatra. Digre Saikumari, Chautara, Chisapani, Beltapu, Kunakhet, Shankhpip are the big fairs that take place in the district every year during this time of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jajarkot and Rukum west have put a ban on fairs and jatra or processions considering the rising cases of COVID-19. The Bheri municipality, Barekot executive meeting took a decision in this regard while the district disaster management committee of Rukum West put a ban on religious and festival-time fairs. Ramidanda, Karkijyula, Sugukhal mela or fair are famous in Barekot while religious fair takes place in Rukum since Ghatasthapana. All the fairs have been banned by issuing a notice. Religious activities however can be carried out by observing social distancing and following the health protocol, said Chief District Officer of Rukum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[12,9,10,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/5f8bb11223a81_1602986999_dd.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.nepalpostkhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}