The initative, supported by the provincial Ministry of Social Development and the Rural Municipality, has been taken to attract tourists to the area.

Volunteer teacher and school help are teaching to run daily classes.

Locals say the authorities have not taken any measures to control deforestation.

Hundred bighas of forest lands at Jhunga in Dudhauli Municipality and Chandanpur in Kamalamai Municipality in Sindhuli district have been encroached upon for building private properties.

After the water source in Dakaha Bazaar in Dudhauli Municipality-4, Sindhuli, dried up a few months ago, they scoured every possible source of water around their settlement, albeit without any success.

The construction of a bridge at Jhunga in Dudhauli Municipality-3, Sindhuli, has been going on at a snail’s pace. The bridge lies at Hetauda-Sindhuli-Gaighat-Chatara road section and connects Hatpate of Dudhauli Municipality-2 with Jhunga of Dudhauli Municipality-3.

Seven people died and about 20 others were injured, some critically, in two separate road accidents in Sindhuli on Wednesday night and Thursday.

Police on Thursday detained two persons from Sindhuli-based ashram of Ram Bahadur Bomjan in connection with the disappearance of Bomjan’s followers.

The local administration has allowed heavy vehicles to ply on BP Highway from Thursday after the Supreme Court (SC) quashed an interim order issued by a single bench of Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla on July 15.

Local authority on Friday banned the entry of heavy vehicles on the BP Highway; five days after the Supreme Court (SC) issued an interim order to this effect.A single bench of SC Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla on Monday had issued the interim order directing the government to bar heavy vehicles from operating on the highway.

Disregarding the Supreme Court’s interim order, heavy vehicles continue to ply the BP Highway, and the authorities concerned have not taken any steps to enforce the directive.

The collection of more than 100 valuable herbs such as timbur and haro baro are being overlooked as an alternative source of income. The herbs are left unpicked due to lack of awareness and knowledge regarding herbs, its collection and processing among locals.

Police have arrested two student leaders close to the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) with a cache of explosives in Sindhuli district.

Middlemen have been taking the lion’s share in the sweet orange value chain, with consumers being overcharged and farmers getting very little for their produce, say locals.

Speaker Onasari Gharti has said that the local level elections are essential for the country’s development.