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Chainpur. The oldest person in the ward. Even in her old age, Tulsi Devi Joshi, 96, has a closeness to the soil. Joshi, from Pithatola in Khaptadchanna Rural Municipality-5, can still be found in her fields. This is not her compulsion, but the habit of farming since childhood has not left her.
‘I don’t feel like staying indoors,’ she said. ‘I keep wondering what has grown in the fields, whether there has been enough water, whether there has been enough manure. Then I go with my shovel.’
Joshi, who has dedicated her life to agriculture since she was young, is still known as a leading farmer in the village. “The villagers still come to me when they cannot find pulses, rice, vegetables and seeds anywhere else in the village,” said Tulsi.
But even after this age, she was not aware of the need for government documents including citizenship. The District Administration Office granted her citizenship at her home last Saturday. Assistant Chief District Officer Satyakumari Joshi prepared all the documents and went to her house to grant her citizenship.
The Assistant Chief District Officer, who was born on 11th Shrawan 1986 BS in Ghodauna, Thalara Rural Municipality-7, said that she met Joshi while she was living as a stateless person.
She said that as soon as she heard that Joshi had not received citizenship even after almost a hundred years, she requested for the documents to be prepared and provided her citizenship as soon as the documents were prepared.
Born to father Jayalal Upadhyay and mother Harinadevi Upadhyay, Joshi was born in Khaptadchanna Rural Municipality-5 in 1994 BS at the age of 8. She was married to Padmaraj Joshi. She became single after Padmaraj left this world in 2051, 57 years after their marriage.
Pithatola, a four-hour drive from the headquarters Chainpur, and the land visible from that place became the world for Tulsi. ‘For me, this is the world,’ Tulsi said, ‘I have not seen the end except for the Bipra Danda to Maitigaun and the Thamlek to the neighboring district of Bajura. I keep looking at this world through the window. Even that has not been completely explored.’
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