Hence the corruption case against 14 people including the head and deputy head of Godavari

The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority filed a case in the special court on Monday against 14 people including Godavari chief Gajendra Maharjan, deputy chief Muna Adhikari and the then chief administrative officers Pravin Koirala, Birendradev Bharti, Krishna Prasad Jaisi and Vishwaraj Marasaini. Nagar Pramukh Maharjan and Deputy Chief Officer who have been made defendants are people's representatives elected by Congress in 2074 and 2079.

According to the Authority, the contract was awarded to 5 different construction companies at a lower revenue rate than the stipulated one from 5 years ago by their own plan and collusion. A huge demand of 1 billion 487 million 45 thousand 287 rupees has been made against the defendant. The authority has filed a case against the chief, deputy chief, chief administrative officer, head of the revenue branch and the rest of the contractors and companies as defendants.

Authority's Assistant Spokesperson Devi Prasad Thapalia indicted 14 people, including municipal officials, employees and contractors, on charges of misappropriation of the revenue received from the sale of stone, ballast, sand and other construction minerals extracted from forests and other public areas during the period 075/76 to 079/80. He said that a case has been filed.

According to the indictment filed by the authority, after the investigation confirmed that the revenue rate of the construction minerals charged by the municipality should be maintained at Rs. 9 per cubic foot in 5 financial years, but only Rs. It is mentioned that a case has been filed demanding imprisonment and fine.

In addition, in the fiscal year 079/80, the Authority has charged 266 million 63 lakh 37 thousand 300 to City Chief Maharjan, Deputy Chief Officer, then Chief Administrative Officer Koirala, Revenue Branch Chief and Revenue Advisory Committee member Srikanth Ghimire, Karma Construction's owner Ravi Maharjan. 98 rupees and demanded the same penalty. Similarly, there is a demand for recovery of Rs. 26 crore 63 lakh 37 thousand 398 against the formless Roda Udyog and its owner Madhusudan Dotel, Kedarnath Timalsena, owner of Machindranath Multipropose, Shashiraj Shahi, owner of the easy Roda Stone Industry, Birendra Maharjan, owner of Birendra Maharjan Stone Industry. According to the authority, 17 crore 89 lakh 35 thousand 500 rupees in 075/76, 21 crore 21 lakh 97 thousand 50 rupees in 076/77, 18 crore 63 lakh 21 thousand 589 rupees in 077/78, 20 crore rupees in 078/79 It is mentioned in the indictment that 49 lakh 53 thousand 750 rupees and 26 crore 63 lakh 37 thousand 398 rupees were embezzled in 079/80.

Unauthorized mining in forest mass

After the country went to a federal structure, the people's representatives came from local level elections in 2074 for the first time. After that, the Godavari municipality started unauthorized mining in the national and community forest areas, but both the municipality and the administration were ignoring it. The Godavari municipality also allowed the sale of construction materials by reducing the tax rate so that there is embezzlement in tax.

Birendra Maharjan, who has been made a defendant, has been operating illegal stone quarrying in Damsidol community forest of Lele Nallu area under Godavari Municipality and crusher in Nallu Khola area. Similarly, Madhusudan Dotel, the owner of the Nirakar stone wheel industry, has been operating a stone crusher in the Damsidol community forest and crushing the Nallu river. Because of this, changing the nature of Nallu River, the river itself has been encroached upon and exploited.

Miners are operating about 20 to 25 ropani forest maser crushers and stone quarrying in Lele Nallu area alone. Even now, when eight to ten excavators are used to transport construction materials daily, the administration and local level mechanisms have been disrupted. The unusable materials released from the unauthorized industries run in this way are mixed in the Nallu river. Which has made the river more polluted.

According to the locals, around 150 households in Tikabhairav, Radha village, Gaurigaon of Lele Nallu area have been adversely affected due to these industries.

Forest Masser stone quarrying is the same in Lalitpur's Godavari Municipality-7 Devichaur. In August 2080, the Department of Mines had instructed Machindranath Multipurpose to take action on the grounds that it was carrying out stone quarrying in the national forest and crusher industry on public land. However, none of the administration, police and local government were interested in it. The local level has become a silent spectator when the easy stone industry is operating the crusher by crushing the public land. According to the locals, crushers with easy and machindra use four/five dozers daily. From which 60 to 70 consignments of construction materials are transported.