Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

SOURCE: SAMAY DAINIK

RONGLI, MAY 28: : In one of a rare initiative of the state, an awareness plantation of fruits and vegetables saplings in the reserve forest of Baklakha was organized by the Scouts & Guides Unit and Generous Students of Dalapchand SS on May 25. The awareness plantation was held in presence of Scout Master, School teachers, S.M.C, Panchyat (GPU, Dalapchand), members of local NGOs and guardians. The press release reads, the idea was taken keeping in view the ongoing clash between wild animals and local people. The main objective was to provide sufficient food for animals in the forest such that they don’t have to invade the human’s habitation. Around 70 students that included Scouts & Guides Unit and Generous Students of Dalapchand SS from class vi to x had participated in the awareness program. The program started at 10 am with brief highlight by SD Bhutia, GT (Bio) and Scout Master of Dalapchand SS about the day long program. Mani Kr.Rai. Panchayat Secretary (GPU, D...

Diliram Sharma Neopany said, in earlier days he used to regularly visit the forest and look for herbal plants but these days he has all the plants in his field. There was even a time when he used to ask for plants from Chiwabhanjyang, he said. He talked about a few names of the herbal plant that he had in his small field. Those plants included Hathjorra, Kaulo, Birray jhar, bhui champa, aleo vera and others that he used in his medicines. He has 31 herbal medicine used as powders that have to be eaten while 21 other herbal plants are used during the wrapping of the wounds. According to this herbal practitioner, for a broken or fractured bone patient below 45 years it usually takes 18 to 28 days to be cured and for people above 50 years old it takes over one and half months. He shows his confidence and makes me believe that he had done this before. He made a more positive approach when he said that he had cured patients with intestine-related problems that do not need to be operated...

Sikkim Legislative Assembly Election 2014 RESULT SDF Winners; 1. Khamdong- Singtam - SDF Somnath Paudyal 2. Yuksom-Tashiding - SDF Sonam Dadul Bhutia 3. Burfung – SDF DD Bhutia 4. Poklok-Kamrang - SDF KN Rai 5. Dzangu - SDF Sonam Gyatsho Lepcha 6. Yangthang - SDF Chandra Maya Subba 7. Lachen-Mangan - SDF Tshering Wangdi Lepcha 8. Maneybong-Dentam - SDF NK Subba 9. Namchi-Singhithang - SDF PK Chamling 10. Chujachen- SDF Bikram Pradhan 11. Melli - SDF Tulsi Devi Rai 12. Namthang-Rateypani - SDF Tilu Gurung 13. Gyalshing-Bernyak –SDF SB Subedi 14. Rinchenpong - SDF K S Lepcha 15. Rangang-Yangyang- SDF PK Chamling 16. Timi-Namphing-SDF GM Gurung 17. Namcheybung- SDF BB Rai 18. Gnathang-Machong- SDF DT Lepcha 19. Tumin-Lingee- SDF Ugen Gyatsho 20. Daramdin- SDF DN Sherpa 21. Soreng-Chakung- SDF RB Subba 22. Soreng-Chakung- SDF RB Subba SKM Winners; 23. Kabi- Lungchok- SKM Ugen N Bhutia 24. West Pandam- SKM Gopal Baraily 25. Rhenock- SKM Hemendra A...

He started his fascination of curing broken bones complications some 18 years back and today with more than two thousand patients he has cured, he is an asset in his village. He enjoys helping people and to him, it is his hobby to cure people that visit him with different types of broken bones related problems. Meet Diliram Sharma Neopany, aged 58, an herbal practitioner locally called ‘Baidhya’ from Aritar- Khamdong (Rhenock). In the remote village of Aritar- Khamdong, he had been serving people for a long time and it is not the regular doctors that the villagers prefer but it is Diliram Sharma Neopany, who is much sought after. More or less, he has been helping his village people save their money from travelling far away from Aritar- Khamdong. Sharma never fails to look at the X-ray of the visiting patients before starting up his medication. He has cured people from far-flung places of Yumthang, Lachen, Kalimpong, Kagey, Pedong, and Pabak to name a few and there are places he h...