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 Bamboo plantation In Lumbini.

 Lumbini turns to bamboo to tame rivers Bamboo plantation marketing campaign underway in all 12 districts of the province to structure organic embankments to stop erosion and flood. 

The Lumbini provincial authorities have begun a bamboo plantation marketing campaign in all 12 districts of the province to create organic embankments alongside the banks of more than a few rivers. The Ministry of Industry, Forest, and Environment has initiated the marketing campaign via 14 Division Forest Offices of the 12 districts. 

“The goal of planting bamboo on the riverbanks is to shape organic embankments to forestall erosion and floods,” stated Mohan Paudel, division woodland officer in Palpa. Rudra Bahadur GC, a resident of Jhyangla in Tinau Rural Municipality­2, remembers the devastating floods of 1981 in the Dobhan flow that wreaked havoc in riverbank settlements. 

The calamity had killed 15 humans and rendered around forty-five households homeless. Floods in the Dobhan movement endured to motive large destruction in Akkaleghat, Chisapani, Dol, and Dobhan Bazaar for many years. The building of the organic embankments is underway with the coordination of the neighborhood Bandelpokhari Community Forest Users’ Committee, Tinau Sub­Division Forest Office, and the Division Forest Office in Palpa. “Bamboo saplings are being planted alongside the Dobhan movement now,” stated GC. 

According to Ramdhyan Sah, the assistant wooded area officer at the Tinau Sub­Division Forest Office, works are underway to plant around 600 bamboo saplings alongside a 1.5­kilometre area of the Dobhan and Tinau streams.

 “This is a sustainable method to constructing embankments. Once the organic embankments are formed, it will assist limit flood injury alongside the riverbanks and close by settlements,” stated Sah. Incidents of erosion and inundation close to rivers and streams have improved in a variety of districts of Lumbini Province of late.

 Padam Shakya, chairman of the Tinau Forest Coordination Committee, stated that the hazard of floods and landslides can be managed with organic embankments. “Bamboo plantations can keep each human life and properties,” stated Shakya. Paul, the division woodland officer in Palpa, stated bamboo plantation works in Purbakhola and Arunkhola financial institution areas have been completed. “Bamboo saplings are developing there,” he said.

 The Ministry of Industry, Forest, and Environment has allotted Rs 14 million for the marketing campaign in the modern fiscal year. “The price range is being used by way of 14 Division Forest Offices of the province to plant bamboo on around a hundred and ten kilometers of riverbank areas,” stated Rajendra KC, secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Forest and Environment.