Triveni rural municipality of the district has banned the mining of gravel sand from the river within the municipality. Due to the indiscriminate mining, not only the river but also the aquatic animals are being killed, the Municipality has banned the mining of gravel sand from May 3rd to the end of August.

In the past, indiscriminate excavation was done for local house building and development work, but since the day of the ban, if anyone is found to have excavated river materials, sand stone from Sharda river, Luhamkhola, Lankini river, Ghurkhola, Rikhebagar river, Pimkhola, Dhungibagar river within the municipality, action will be taken according to the law .

Every year, the municipality assigns the responsibility to the contractor to excavate the river material through the contract, and Niraj and Dipsan Construction Services, which has been assigned the responsibility of excavating 9,000 cubic meters of gravel sand through the DPR, has already taken it as specified. Tell .

He informed that for the construction of houses and development, the local people should buy from the site excavated by the construction company after construction. Until last year, when the locals were building houses and when the consumers were doing development work, they used to dig gravel sand from their nearby river. They will not be able to do that in the future. If someone tries to do arbitrary excavation, action will be taken according to the law," he said.