A Nepali Army team deployed to Banke National Park has started providing security to children going to and from school after tigers began causing daily terror near settlements.
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The army has started providing security to school-going children in Kalimati after tigers began to terrorize the settlement.
A tiger that entered the Banke National Park killed two people from Hattidhunga in Kalimati Rural Municipality-6 and Parseni in 7 in the second week of last month, and one each in Kalimati and Surkhet. Since then, the tiger has been causing daily terror near the settlements, so a Nepali Army team deployed in the Banke National Park has started providing security to children going to school.
After the ward office demanded that arrangements be made for the security of school-going children to protect them from tiger attacks, the army team deployed in the park has started providing security to students going to Nepal National Secondary School Ghuiyabari from Swamibas, Haukhola, Batule, and Rang in Kalimati Rural Municipality-7.
More than 100 children from Haukhola, Batule, Swamibas and Rang have not been able to go to school regularly for a month after the security personnel failed to control and kill the tiger that killed three people in Poush and was aggressively roaming near the settlement. After the army started providing security, all the children have started going to school regularly.
After the army started providing security while going to school and returning home, the children of the affected settlements who go to school now feel safe. It has also become easier for parents who drop their children off at school every day.
Even though the forest office ordered to control and kill the tiger that killed three people, the Nepal Army was unable to control it, so the children who could not go to school due to fear were asked for the army's help. He said that after the demand for security, the army team has now started providing security while going to school in the morning and returning home in the evening.
‘It takes an hour and a half for children from Swamibas, Batule, Haukhola and Rang to reach Neramawi in Ghuiyabari through the forest. The local children have been greatly relieved after the army started providing security in the morning and evening,’ he said. He said that since the tigers roar in the forest near the settlement every day, they have not been able to leave their homes alone for local work and go to the forest to cut grass.
Rato Basnet of Rang said that since the army started providing security, he has not been able to drop or pick up his children from school for the past few days. He said that they are forced to go out only in groups of 8/10 due to the fear of tigers.
Polendra Gharti Magar of Haukhola said that after the Nepali Army started providing security, the villagers have finally started sending their children to school. He said that the army cannot provide security forever and the fear of tigers remains, so it would be better if the government relocated the settlements.
After the establishment of the Banke National Park in 2064, dozens of locals from some settlements of Kalimati Rural Municipality-7 were displaced in a decade, leaving behind their homes and property, due to the growing fear of tigers and other wild animals, Narayan Sunar said.
