Residents of the central region stay awake all night

Former ward president Harikrishna Bhattarai said that he had not slept for more than a week. He said that it has been a week since he did not sleep at night due to the fear of elephants coming from the forest at night. He says that it is his routine to drive away elephants every night with a light.

Bhattarai said that he had to stay awake because of the elephants coming from the forest every day while he was resting at night after working outside all day. He says that he spends the night chasing elephants.

Like Bhattarai, the situation of Chandra Bahadur Magar of Barah Kshetra-2 rehabilitation is also the same. He said that there is a problem due to elephants coming from daily wildlife reserve and other forests. He informed that the house was damaged by a group of elephants that came on the night of August 12.

In this area, elephants coming from the reserve on a daily basis are causing economic and material damage. Although the government is providing compensation to the elephant victims, the locals say that it is not enough.

Magar said that the local government and the administration have been repeatedly asked to find a long-term solution to all the problems as compensation alone will not solve them.

The reserve administration has said that the elephants are causing problems and the victims have not been able to provide facilities and security. Ward president of Barah Kshetra-2, Hom Prasad Gautam, informed that since last July, more than 100 families have applied to the wildlife reserve for compensation.