Narayani River Excavation Ordered to Be Regulated by Nawalpur District Monitoring Committee

Nawalpur. The District Monitoring Committee Nawalpur has directed to regulate the excavation of the Narayani River flowing through Nawalpur and Chitwan. The committee, during its on-site inspection, found that excavation in the Narayani River was being carried out in an uncontrolled manner and has directed to regulate river excavation. The coordinator of the committee and chief of the District Coordination Committee Nawalpur, Baburam Bishwakarma, said that riverine materials were being excavated arbitrarily from the Narayani River. He stated that excavation was done by digging deeper pits than permitted and also in areas other than those specified after environmental impact assessment. He said that riverine material excavation should not be done against the rules.

“We had conducted inspections before as well, and when it was not seen to be done according to the rules, we had given various suggestions to make it compliant with the rules,” said Chief Bishwakarma, “but even after a week, there was no satisfactory improvement.”