Culture

After completion of 23 km motorable road (not for rainy season) from Galyang to Setibeni, people of this VDC can meet Siddhartha Highway within one and half hour. This road, which has crossed through the heart of the VDC have now connected to big market center Galyang on one side and with the religious center Setibeni on the other side. This road will extend huge development potentialities after linking this road with nearby another market center Mirmi and Waling- Hwas road. Now, motorable road has touched in ward of this VDC.According to policy of Government of Nepal to extend telephone services to each VDCs of Nepal, this VDC have also been benefited with access of phone services. Now, no ward is without access of telephone service in this VDC.In addition to this, the VDC has one additional post office at Dudebazar, one health post at Pandethok, four private pharmaceutical shop at Dude, Pandethok, Setibeni and Ranipohari. It has nine primary school ( including seven schools up to class five and two schools up to three class), one secondary school and one higher secondary school. Health post and schools have well facility building with toilet and drinking water facility on their own premises. Higher Secondary school has facility of library as well as computer education facility from the current year. The average distance of primary schools with the student's home is 20 minutes and the average distance of health post from health post from the villager's home is 42 minutes.In spite of insufficient intervention from Non Government Organization ( NGO) in this VDC, support on drinking water projects from Helvatas and Red Cross, School Building project from JICA, some agricultural farming trainings from SIMI Nepal is praiseworthy. From local initiative, mothers group and club have been formed and executed which has reached in number of sixteen.Locally, small market centres has been developed to provide access of different services and to make linkage with hinterland villages. Dudebazar, located at the center area of this VDC have functional access of purchasing/ selling goods, school, health, postal facility and administration of VDC. Another market center, Setibeni, though located at the west corner of the VDC, has carried also religious significance due to celebration of Mela on the special occasion of Ekadash, and Sankranti. The vital role of intermediaries have been realized to generate more economic potentiality by linking the hinterland villages (which can produce and provide local products) with local and urban market center( which can give market to the product produced by villagers).