Locals have demanded the immediate removal of the crusher industry operating in Ajirkot rural municipality-4 Dhodeni without meeting even the minimum standards. The crusher industry opened for the road project is next to Dhodeni settlement.

Local Surya Rana Magar said that the sound and air pollution of the crusher industry on the banks of the river and near the settlement were harassing.

"The crusher runs from morning till late in the evening, the dust reaches the settlement, the crusher runs till late in the evening, its noise made it impossible to live," he said.

Crusher industry was established 1 year ago for the construction purpose of Simjung-Ghyachok road. But the locals said that the crusher industry is operating at a distance of about 10 kilometers from Simjung village, the starting point of the road construction. There is a provision that no crusher industries can be operated and established within 5-500 meters of settlements, river banks.

from the arbitrariness of the crusher industry against the local  Ajit is . Man Bahadur Tamang of Ajirkot-4 said that the materials of the industry, which was established only for the construction materials required for the road project, are being sold for commercial purposes as well.

'The road construction contractor has operated the crusher, but the starting point of the road is almost 10 kilometers above the place where the crusher is located,' he said. There is a provision that the crusher industry established for the

road project cannot sell and distribute construction materials for commercial purposes. Locals have been requesting not to operate the crusher industry many times before.

The contractor company Nav Kantipur-Construction Pvt. Ltd. Proprietor Janak Bhatt, who has been entrusted with the construction of the road, has been accused by the locals of not even taking into account the minimum standards for the operation of the industry. Bhim Kumar Gurung, a local resident, said that the crusher industry operating near the motorway bridge and road side, river bank and the settlement has harassed the residents of the settlement.

'The biggest problem is the dust and the noise of the crusher,' he said. break The district administration office is on Tuesday demanding the immediate removal of the crusher by taking a decision from the village meeting. They came to the district administration office with the signatures of 46 locals and demanded action against the contractor company who violated the law by removing the crusher industry from that place.

There is a complaint of the local residents that the demand has not been heard even after verbally informing the municipality. Janak Bhatt, Proprietor of Nava Kantipur Construction Pvt. Ltd., said that the crusher industry has been operating with temporary permission for the project from the rural municipality.

'They complain that there is no big settlement nearby,' he said, 'We have taken permission to operate temporarily, the project will run for the duration, we will open it after the completion of the road construction.' Navakantipur Construction is in charge of the seven and a half kilometers of the Simjung-Ghyachok road Got it .