Residents of five wards, including wards number 7 and 8 of Bharatpur, who protested that the railway would pass through the slum, organized a meeting on Wednesday to thank the government for taking a new decision. Mayor Renu Dahal of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Deputy Mayor Chitrasen Adhikari and heads and representatives of political parties including Congress, UML, Maoist participated as guests in the program.

Locals formed the proposed Railway Victims' Struggle Committee in August last year. It included the residents of 5, 4 and 16 including wards 7 and 8. Ward number 7 and 8 is currently a densely populated area of Bharatpur area. It was proposed that the east-west electric railway route would cross the Barandabhar forest and go west, passing through these wards of Bharatpur and crossing the Narayani river and leaving Nawalpur.

It was seen that two thousand 250 households of these wards of Bharatpur will be affected by the proposed route. That is why we are fighting. Let alone sell our land on the proposed railway, we cannot even mortgage it," said Divya Nepal, secretary of the Sangharsh Samiti. Therefore, he said that the struggle has been carried forward by talking to the wards and the metropolitan city and the meeting was held to thank the railway department as a form of struggle to move forward in a new way.

The Railway Department has written a letter to Bharatpur Metropolitan Municipality on 11th July and informed that in the budget of the current financial year, 'a detailed study will be done to build an electric railway of standard gauge standards based on the east-west highway' in point number 273. Before that, on August 9 of last year, the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure had instructed to study the feasibility of the alternative layout and submit an opinion.