Houses scattered in the middle of the forest, to visit the same village, you have to walk through the forest, so you can't even spend a whole day. However, none of the villagers in this remote settlement inside the forest are unemployed.

Whether it is women or men of working age, everyone has found work in the village.  Thus, community forest is the main source of employment for everyone.

While the villages are emptying after moving towards the city in search of facilities, employment and development in the forest has stopped the migration of the remote locals. 1500 people from 823 households belonging to Gaide Community Forest User Group in Sitganga Municipality-11 have got regular work from the forest.

There are 65 consumers from Mauwabari, 15 households from Tikri, others from Patharkot and Birpur. "35 youths who have returned from foreign jobs work in the forest," said Juddha Bahadur Sunar, the president of the forest, "Within the forest management based on the support system, there are twelve tasks including cutting wood, chipping, pellet making, ghatgaddi, cleaning, mining, fireline construction, chipping for wood and separating firewood. The month of work is enough. There are two young people as

One Heralu. They get monthly salary of 9000 per month . He said that those who work in the forest such as clearing bushes, fire fighting, making fire lines, etc., will be paid a daily wage of 700 rupees for food and snacks, and 800 rupees for work such as chopping, felling, and loading wood.

In this way, 22 lakh 99 thousand and 2 lakh 10 thousand were spent on transportation and 2 lakh 99 thousand for the work of forest group last year with 1500 people working. Sita Belwase, Secretary of the Forest Group, said that 2 lakh 65 thousand were spent on Godmel, 2.5 lakh on bush cleaning, 3 lakh on cutting branches and 6 lakh on bush cleaning and fire control. According to the nature of the work, consumers will be divided into groups and employed, she said. In the

forest there are many trees like Sal, Asana, Tikuli, Karma, Sisau, Khair etc. Forest protection, maintenance, wood production, felling are all done by consumers. Women and youth are more active in the village. "I spent many years in Saudi Arabia looking for work," said Bir Bahadur Nepali, a local, "After getting a job in the forest of the village for twelve months, I canceled my visa to go abroad and am working here." I got different jobs for twelve months while working on forest protection, maintenance, growing trees, making and cutting wood, chopping, loading and unloading, cleaning with pellet making, fire protection etc. Chandra Bahadur Sunar said, "I have got work related to forest protection and employment. I am proud to build my own village more than in other countries." He worked in Malaysia for more than 5 years. After coming back home, he is busy working here every day.

"When I was young, when I saw cows and goats, the forest was unorganized, so we went to Malaysia in search of employment," he said, "After the community forest was established, the village started to organize and protect the forest." In the beginning, when the forest was based on scientific forest management and now on the cultivation system, the consumers got jobs by growing plants and cutting and selling the trees He said . "You can get food by farming, there is no need to run anywhere in search of employment as there is work in the forest," said Gopal Khatri, a forest watcher, "I get 9,000 tabal a month." If all the members of the family get a job, they will have enough money to cover their expenses, and if they raise crops, vegetables, and cattle at home, the family is not able to meet the expenses, there is also savings.'

He said that if there were no jobs in the forest, no one would live in such a forest. Two decades ago there was wood in the forest. Banga Tinga, was cluttered with bushes . By making a community, the villagers plant new plants in the bare forest, grow the grown trees, clean the bushes, thin them, cut the branches, dig the plants and keep the soil, quickly produce wood during irrigation, and there is a forest with straight trees . There are no trees in the forest. The local consumers are active in the process of cutting down old trees and making forests by producing new ones.

The income of the forest has also led to the development of the village with employment for the locals. The main income of Gaide Community Forest, which has an area of ​​368.97 hectares, is wood and firewood. Wood such as Sal, Sisoon etc. is sold at high prices. Last year, forest group earned 336 million rupees from the sale of wood. Out of which 23 lakhs was done for the development plan . 63 lakh rupees is saved in the bank .

The leadership of the consumer group discusses the development needs of the villagers in a meeting and allocates the budget. Sita Belwase, Secretary of the Forest Group, said that from the income of the forest, the budget is spent on the construction of roads, irrigation canals, community buildings, school buildings, electricity expansion, water supply schemes, poverty alleviation and income generation.

There are three schools in the village. 2 in Ganga Jyoti Mavi, 2 in Janjyoti Avi of Patharkot and 1 teacher in Rudraveni Avi in ​​Mauwabari have been provided salary from forest income . Dress, stationery has been distributed to the students. Financial assistance to poor families among consumers has been done.

Last year, 3 lakhs were spent for poverty reduction, 3 lakhs from the forest and 2 lakhs from the ward office for the construction of Mauwabari irrigation canal. She said that construction of Tikuri social building with an investment of 16 lakhs, construction of houses for two poor people and one elderly family, 900 meters of road gravel in Birpur Dhaireni, 1 lakh for the construction of Birpur Covered Hall and irrigation canal, embankment up to Ghatgaddi with an investment of 6 lakhs, and construction of temple buildings have been done. . When allocating the

budget, the plan is chosen in the direction of the Ward President. She said that she is not sure how much income will be generated this year due to wood cutting. Assistant Forest Officer and Divisional Forest Office Information Officer Keshar Khadka said that the Community Forest Consumer Group has provided a great support to forest conservation, timber production and forest income from employment and development.

"One group has made a 10-year action plan," he said, "everything is mentioned in that action plan, and we should work accordingly." We provide regulation and technical assistance to the Forest Office. There are many annual trees in this area. Its wood is valuable. Sal tree produces wood in 80 years . Forest officer Mohan Shrestha said, "We have numbered the number of trees in the forest," said Mohan Shrestha. Every year, trees that have reached age are cut.

After cutting trees, annual saplings will grow in the ground, growing them, mulching them, and protecting them from fire will produce wood quickly, he said. He argues that forest management based on development provides employment to consumers, income to the state and forest protection. He said that the forest office has provided training, education and technical support to the consumers regarding forest management to protect the forest. The