Abuse of locals by followers of Bamjan Ashram

Locals complain of not being able to graze and cut grass in the forest around the ashram. Maina Shrestha of Kamalamai Municipality-5 Silame said that buying land of 10 bigha area and more than that and walking outside the ashram spread in the community forest area was banned. He complained that Bamjan's followers abused him when he went inside the forest group's area to collect grass and firewood. "We have been collecting grass and firewood in this forest area for generations," she said, "Now the people of the ashram do not even allow us to walk with grass and firewood. If you retaliate, they threaten that anything will happen. '

Locals allege that entry to the ghats to perform death rites and the river, forest and road that have been used for years around the ashram of Pare has been blocked. Ward no. According to Makar Pakhrin, President of Raktadevi Community Forest User Committee of 8, Bamjana's followers and Gurumarg Gurus have stopped the locals from entering the forest area by saying the above order. 'Even the road from our grass-wood to the ward office and the ghat should go through Bamjan's ashram,' he said, 'but now they don't even let us walk through that road in the name of peace zone.' The construction of Bamjan's ashram was started. Moktan said that after the ashram was constructed with high walls and barbed wire fences in an area of ​​22 bighas with 10 bighas numbered and 12 bighas more than ilani, there was also a problem to cut grass and firewood in the community forest and to monitor it. According to Indra Shrestha, president of another Dakshinkali community forest group in the same area, the people's representatives, employees and locals who went to monitor the felled wood according to the forest group's action plan and the approval of the division forest office were surrounded by Bamjan's followers and held hostage for 4 hours on February 28.  ;

Purna Bahadur Khadka, Ward President of Kamalamai Municipality-5, said that while going to monitor the culvert constructed under Forest and Silame-Besare road, he had to endure insults from Bamjan's followers. "On Monday, we went to inspect the culvert and the wood built near the ashram, but we had to be held hostage because of whose permission we came there, how dare we come here," he said. They have their own secret there.'

'Ward president Khadka, forest staff, officials of the forest group and local forest officials did not allow them to cross the road when they approached the ashram for monitoring,' Dakshinkali Community Forest Group chairman Shrestha said, 'whose permission did they come here? The followers of Bamjan's ashram have been blocking access to users of Dakshinkali, Saraswati, Chandevi, Raktadevi, Siddhathakur community forest groups around the ashram since its establishment. Because of this, the people of Silame, Shakajor, Besare, Dhusune, Pare etc. are in panic.

President of Community Forest Consumer Federation Sindhuli Hitlal Shrestha said that the forest area of ​​three groups has been encroached on account of Bamjan Ashram. "During the monitoring, we have found that even the area of ​​the forest group has been encroached upon." Apart from their land, the local administration has also been requested many times to vacate the land of Ailani and forest area. However, there has been no hearing,' said Shrestha, 'since the state has entrusted the protection, use and management of the community forest to the locals, they have to go to the forest for maintenance, pruning, fire control, etc., but the users of the group are not allowed to enter there.' story- break The President of Bodhi Shravan Dharma Sangh, Phulkumari Ghising, said that although the permission of the gurus is required to enter the ashram, there is no ban on walking outside the ashram. "It was found that the followers did not understand the point and caused pain to the locals," she said, "We will not allow such a situation to happen."