Thousand saplings planted in Miteri forest, Kohalpur

Mon, 12 October 2026

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Mon, 12 October 2026

By Siraj Khan, Nepalgunj, Oct 12: About a thousand saplings have been plated at the Miteri Community Forest in Kohalpur Municipality-7 of Banke district.

The plantation was organized by 'Hami Eutai Bhayer Prithvi Lai Suru Dekhi Antya Samma Bachau (Let's save the earth from beginning to end by being we all one)' under the Mother Forest Project with a view to expand forest area and reduce climate change impact.

Hem Raj Shahi of the organizing institute said that tree saplings were planted on a hector of land which had remained barren.

Chief guest of the programme, Man Bahadur Giri, chief administrative officer of the Kohalpur Municipality, pointed at the need to protect forest as it was getting unsafe from human being although it keeps humans safe.

Thagga Tharu, chair of ward 8 of the Kohalpur Municipality, thanked the organizer for planting trees in barren area of the forest.

Ranger Shiva Kumar Yadav of Kohalpur Forest office viewed it most important work to save and protect forest and that there was need of more and more of such plantation programmes.

About a hundred participants planted on Sunday the saplings provided by the Shamshergunj sub-Division Forest Office.

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