Chure area is falling under the grip of encroachment due to uncontrolled settlement development and haphazard construction of infrastructure. At the top of Chure Hill, major infrastructure structures such as cable cars, roads, irrigation, and electricity are being built. Dozens of big cities of Lumbini province are also developed at the foot of Chure Hills and the development infrastructure built for the convenience of those settlements has also increased soil erosion in Chure Hills.

The Chure Protected Area in Rupandehi and the foothills of the Chure Hills are growing in slums. In the hope that the government will distribute the parts to the landowners, they are still developing settlements by cutting down the stolen forests and constructing roads using dozers.

Rupandehi's Devdah Municipality, Butwal sub-metropolitan municipality and Saina Maina municipality are located in Ailani land of Chure Fendi. In Keuli, Sarantari, Satakkhola villages of Devdah municipality area, locals have been using dozers to clear forests, clear agricultural land, and dig roads. Dozers and excavators have reached the Ghodaha river passing through the forest in the Charanga area to take out ballast sand. In Devdah's Downe, Khaireni, Charange, Shitalnagar, Keuli settlements, the process of digging is continuous. 

About 1,300 houses of Bhalubang in Dang are in the land of National Forest and Chure Hills. Ruppandehi's Sainamaina is also a city where the settlement has developed based on Chure's Fend. 45 percent of Sainamaina settlements are in the foothills of Ailani and Chure. Murgia, Parroha, Jharbaira, Sorauli, Kalouni and other settlements are in the foothills of Chure . More than 40 percent of the households of Sinamaina who are living in the Ailani land of Chure are still landless.

When the cement industry is excavating limestone in the Chure hills, it has started to rain. Basantpur and Nuwakot Hill in the Chure Protected Area within the Butwal sub-metropolitan city have started to develop settlements. Both hills are being excavated using dozers and excavators. 

Structures are being built on both hills by clearing forests with the approval of the federal government. For the purpose of delivering construction materials from Butwal to Nuwakot, an 8-kilometer road has been constructed by cutting down Chure's forest. As a result, environmental protection engineer Yuvraj Kandel said that the area is under daily exploitation and encroachment.

"The settlement is being built by clearing the forest near Chure, digging roads in the name of convenience of that settlement and the dozers used in the villages are destroying Chure," he said, "The three levels of government are not sensitive to the protection of Chure." Forest clearing is also increasing in the Chure area. After deforestation, settlements develop in that area . He said that the direct effect of this will be the destruction of Chure.

A road is being built up to Jhingamara in Palpa's Tinau Rural Municipality by cutting down the stolen forest from Saina Maina's forest. Along with road construction, forest destruction is increasing in Chure . Due to road construction and settlement development in Chure, environmental pollution and land erosion incidents have started increasing every year.

Ramwali Chowdhury, an old politician from Sainamaina, said that the government should stop the development of slums in Chure area in time . "We have been saying that we should protect the forest for 50/60 years," he said, "but now efforts are being made to distribute parts by setting up settlements near the same forest." Most of the land in the northern region from Devdah in Rupandehi to Sainamaina on the East-West Highway falls under Chure Protected Area . Now the local government has classified it under the names of Ailani, Chure Ukhada area, Sukumbasi, Block No. 8, Forest area, River Ukas area and prepared for the distribution of land owners. 

Spread over 136 square kilometers, almost 50 percent of Devdah's land is in forest and chure areas. The process of encroaching on the same forest and setting up settlements continues even now. Palpa Cement Industry is operating a limestone mine in Mathagadhi Rural Municipality of Palpa in the northern region of Devdah. Every day, hundreds of tippers transport limestone from Hattilung hill in Chure region. Roads are being built and expanded every year in that area. The road built by the cement industry has developed the settlement up to the forest. Siddhicharan Bhattarai, a local who is studying the forest area of Devdah and unorganized settlements, said that Chure forest is under encroachment every year. "If we do not manage unorganized settlements as soon as possible, Chure forest will be destroyed," he said.

President Chure Tarai Madhesh Conservation Development Committee Program Implementation Unit Office Butwal has been doing conservation work in Chure area of 10 districts including 7 in Lumbini Province, 2 in Gandaki Province and 1 in Karnali Province. However, the office is only given the responsibility of controlling the damage caused by rivers originating from Chure, rather than controlling the damage caused by the Chure due to infrastructure construction and human settlement. It has shown that the amount of crores spent annually in the name of conservation has become ineffective.

However, the head of the office, Annath Baral, said that the office is only responsible for irrigation, embankment, silting, landslide prevention, underground water recharge and subsurface water use, pond protection and management, Taltalaiya protection.

'Uncontrolled settlements, infrastructure development, mining, river exploitation and Chure encroachment are the main challenges,' he said, 'but the Chure Conservation Office does not even have the right to regulate and control them.' He said that when the three levels of government were making plans for the development of the Chure Conservation Area and the Chure Hills, without looking at the technical study, location-wise needs and without studying the possible erosion, encroachment and land erosion are increasing.