It has been found that Indian citizens are farming in about 900 bigha forest area of ​​Shuklaphanta National Park. They have been farming for a long time in the southern part of the park adjoining Gorakh Dibi in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

According to the park administration, Indian nationals are regularly mining in the area beyond Sikari Lake of the park. In the last study conducted by the park, it was confirmed that the forest area has been encroached. But only one location has been studied.

'More than 25 hectares of land has been encroached on in the area we studied,' said Ranger Sideep Adhikari ;

Indian nationals Ranjan Biswas and Chita Ranjan Sarkar, who were mining in the park area, have been arrested and the park has even tried a case. The official informed that the district court has sent them to jail for preliminary injunction.

"A case has been started after seeing wheat being plowed and sown by a tractor in the park," he said. Indians have encroached on the park and the surrounding Nepalese territory between the border pillars.

The encroached area is close to Beldadi Rural Municipality. But due to the fact that it is not possible to go on patrol in that area, it has not been possible to maintain it regularly. Nine hundred bighas of land has been encroached upon. Indian citizens have cultivated wheat there," said Manoj Kumar Shah, senior conservation officer of the park. "They can't come because of flooding in Barkha, they sow wheat in winter." He said that the Ministry of Home Affairs has also been informed about this from the District Administration Office. The forest area of ​​the park has been encroached on for a long time. Now we are discussing and coordinating with everyone to solve this problem," he said.