Three months after the Cabinet decided to give usufruct rights, the work was stopped because there was no tree cutting order
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The work of the dry port to be built at Dodhara Chandni has been mired in tree felling orders. Three months after the cabinet meeting decided to give the right of land for the dry port, the work was stopped because there was no tree felling order.
The Intermodal Transport Development Committee is continuously coordinating with the Forest Ministry for the orders for felling of trees at the port construction site. But Ashish Gajurel, executive director of the committee, said that the cutting order could not be made.
'India has already appointed a consultant to advance the contract process for the construction of the dry port,' he said, 'We have not been able to clear the space, even after everything has been done, there has been a problem because the cutting order has not come.' He says.
The cabinet meeting of the first week of October decided to use 43 hectares of Mayapuri community forest in the central area of Shuklaphanta National Park for dry port. It is seen that 1700 trees in the forest area have to be cut.
Gajurel said that since there is no condition to give land elsewhere instead of it, it has been managed to give 140 million rupees.
"Budget has been managed by giving cash instead of forest land," Gajurel said, "There is a problem with lack of coordination between government agencies in the work of development and construction." After that, it was expected that the work would start rapidly.
The Intermodal Transport Development Committee had planned to open a liaison office after Dasain and proceed with the work of cutting trees. "The Indian side is also requesting that the side be vacated as the contract process has progressed," he said.
It has been agreed that the dry port will be built by the Government of India with a subsidy. Accordingly, Gajurel said that the Indian side would complete the work within three years after the construction started. According to him, according to the preliminary study done by the Indian side, it is estimated that the construction of the dry port will cost about 6 billion.
According to the DPR (Detailed Project Report) prepared by India, administrative buildings, warehouses, customs, security, quarantine houses and load unloading sheds will be constructed for the dry port. Also, a wall will be built on all sides.
The four-lane concrete bridge over the Mahakali river towards Nepal and the 8-kilometer 6-lane road from Gaddachouki to Dodhara Chandni Municipality-1 Malaria Nala, the last point of the East-West Highway, have reached the final stage.
Construction of an access road from Jogbuda Bridge in Uttarakhand's Champawat district to the border is underway. But sometimes there is a delay in the acquisition of land rights, sometimes there is a delay in the tree cutting order and sometimes there is a delay in the construction of the dry port due to the confusion that is happening in the name of environmental management plan construction.
