Butwal-Narayangadh Road Extension Project has started planting new saplings as compensation for felled trees. A project where 40,000 saplings have been cut will have to plant 10,000 saplings.

Shiv Khanal, the Information Officer of Road Project East Section, said that according to the provision that 25 times more saplings should be planted than the trees cut during the construction of the project, tree plantation has been started in East Nawalparasi. The project will now plant about 17,000 saplings in an area of ten hectares and the rest will be selected and planted gradually.

Tree plantation has been done in Madhyabindu Municipality-14, Bad Kholsi Kabuliyati Forest, Darsinghat Kabuliyati Forest and Batasa Kabuliyati Forest. Plantation work has been done through the Division Forest Office at the cost of the project. Since it is not easy to find a place to plant 1 million saplings, the project side is ready to deposit the amount equal to the amount that could not be planted in the Forest Development Fund.