Agreement to cut down 646 trees for building trauma centre

Trivedi (Nawalparasi), Feb 4: The Department of Forest and Soil Conservation, and Devchuli municipality of Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Sustapurva) district have signed an agreement to cut down trees for creating a space so that the process of establishing of a trauma centre would be accelerated. The trauma centre will be built at Devchuli municipality-17 in the district.    
    
The recent agreement paved way to go-ahead the construction of the health facility, talked much for quite a while, according to Mayor Hari Prasad Neupane. Two hectares of land have been allocated for the trauma centre. It is the forest area near Jharahi stream of Devchuli-17.    
    
The meeting of the Council of Ministers held on July 29, 2024 had decided to provide the forest land and allow for felling trees.    
    
Following this, Devchuli municipality provided Rs 16 million to the Department of Forest and Soil Conservation to forward the undertaking.    
    
The agreement was signed by Mayor Neupane and Chairman of Ward No 17, Ganesh Shah, and Deputy Director General of the Department, Dhananjay Lamichhane, and Undersecretary Rambalak Prasad Yadav. The trees would be cleared as per agreement so that the activities for construction would be forwarded.    
    
Similarly, contract for the undertaking would be proceeded with through the Urban Development and Building Construction Project, Chitwan. The financial resource of Rs 100 million had already been secured for the multi-year project.(RSS)