The number of tourists visiting Dhankuta is declining
Dhankuta Municipality, with government support, invested Rs. 10 million in promoting a cave and waterfall in Okmalung. Infrastructure included suspension bridges, staircases, lights, a pond, and toilet. Despite the investment, few tourists visit the area, highlighting the need for further tourism development. Dhankuta Municipality has spent millions on tourism infrastructure, but lack of publicity has hindered tourist visits. Despite constructions at Hile Siran, Chuliban Park, and Madhugangadham, religious tourists visit these sites only during the Mangshir festival. Jaldevi wetland, Suntale Hill, and Ramche Hill infrastructure in Dhankuta Municipality have not been utilized, causing lack of water and tourists.
Similar steps were taken to go to Patek Hill in Chathar Jorpati in Dhankuta, which cost millions of rupees. The highest point in Dhankuta is Patek Hill. The Banjhakri Park, which was built at Dhankuta’s Mahalaxmi at a cost of around Rs. 28 million, and other municipal tourism facilities are hardly used. Bhesraj Khatri, assistant professor of economics at Hile Campus, claims that the reasons behind underutilized tourism infrastructures are the structures built for access rather than necessity, the structures built by the previous term’s representatives that are not accepted by the current ones, and the lack of adoption by the local population.
