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Baglung women community bags Bandevi award
Post Report
KATHMANDU, March 16: Sajini Women Community Forest Users
Group, Baglung, has been selected for this year’s Bandevi award instituted by Nepal
foresters association.
The award given every year to the community
forest users group making outstanding contributions in the conservation of forest carries
a purse of Rs 5 thousand and a citation. Minister for forest and soil conservation Badri
Narayan Basnet, inaugurating the tenth annual meeting of the association and presenting
the award here yesterday, said that as the community and leasehold forests have been
effective in the protection of forest in the hilly areas, homework was being carried out
to extend the programme in the districts of the plains.
Pointing out the need to adopt new scientific
policy in forest management in the present context when scanty or excessive rainfall was
taking place and soil erosion was on the increase, he called upon the foresters to provide
suggestions in this regard.
On the occasion, minister Basnet gave away
certificates and prizes to the members of the association.
Secretary at the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation
Chandi Prasad Shrestha and association president Dr. Keshar Man Bajracharya also expressed
their views at the programme.
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