RATNANAGAR: The Ratnanagar municipality has officially adopted a policy to not allow women with children two years and below to leave the country.

“Woman who leave their kids of below two years with their parents or in-laws to go abroad shall not be given permission,” reads the 17-point proposal endorsed by the municipal assembly for the new fiscal year.

The ninth municipal assembly of the municipality passed a 17-point proposal along with the budget and policy and programmes for the fiscal year 2021/22. A budget of Rs 1.26 billion was endorsed incuding 14 municipal projects and 13 pride projects on cost-sharing basis.

Other significant proposals passed by the assembly include mandatory provision for community school management committee office-bearers and teachers to educate their children in community schools and transferring budget from one heading to another only with the permission of the municipal assembly, said Mayor Narayan Won.

(RSS)