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Valuable wood also flows from Karnali and Babai rivers flowing from Bardia every rainy season. In India, there are contracts for timber worth crores of rupees flowing from here.
Despite the loss of precious wood, the Division Forest Office and Bardia National Park have not been able to implement it due to legal obstacles. Valuable forest products such as sal, sisau, etc., flow especially from Bardia National Park and hilly areas to Karnali and Babai. Every rainy season, thousands of small trees are washed away and brought to India.
Due to the legal deadlock between the Local Self-Government Act and the Forest Act, forest produce worth crores is flowing to India from the Karnali and Babai rivers flowing through Bardia. Forestry employees say that the forest products that flow from the Nepalese territory to India are flowing due to legal complications and cannot be stopped in their own country.
An employee of Girijapuri Dam said that a contract of 3 crores was given for two years to collect the forest products that flowed from the Nepalese territory in Girijapuri, Karnali Dam built on the Indian border.
Locals say that many trees were washed away by the flood last year. Dil Bahadur Tharu of Geruwa complained that due to the government's lack of clear policy, they will be punished if they collect driftwood. A decade and a half ago, the former district development committee had written to the Ministry of Forestry and demanded the collection of contracts. At that time, the ministerial decision provided for the provision of this authority, but it has not been implemented .
Locals say that there is a problem due to lack of coordination between parks, forests and local levels. Local Government Act 2055, Regulation 2056 section 218 paragraph 5, including seventy-two river sand, gravel, and stone sale provisions are clear, forest staff say that it is difficult to implement because the section of the Forest Act is conflicting.
Information Officer of Division Forest Office Bardia Forest Officer Ramkumar Chaudhary said that there is a system to collect wood through consumers. He said that it is not possible to collect driftwood individually. "How much wood flows from Barseni river, the division forest office does not have the data of this". It is difficult to estimate," he said. "It can only be estimated that more than one million crores have flowed from the rivers including Babai and Karnali due to floods.
The park awarded a contract for wood collection in the year 2052/053. But due to legal hurdles and expensive collection costs, it was banned from 2053 saying that the wood was wasted. In this regard, Ashok Ram, head of Bardia National Park, said that he had no information about it. He said that consumers can collect but it is necessary to make a policy for this.
The dam built by India on the Babai River (Saryu River in India) in the border area of Girijapuri to collect forest produce has been closed during the rainy season, and the flow of water has increased to the north, flooding the Nepalese territory . The dam of the Babai River is the Gopiya Barrage on the Indian border.
