Kathmandu, 28 October: There is needed to cut down only 120 thousand trees to construct the second international airport in Nijgadh.
There were rumours that the entire forest was going to be finished from construction of the proposed airport, from which, the project had become controversial in the international level. Meanwhile, the Project has made clear that trees are going to be cut down at very nominal level.
Project chief Om Sharma said that the airport is going to be constructed by cutting down trees at very nominal level.
The airport will have two runways.
He made clear that out of 2 thousand 350 hector area needed for the airport, only one thousand 650 hector land belongs to the forest area.
Accordingly, the Project chief informed that 10 trees will be planted against cut down of one tree. In total, in one thousand 850 hector land, tree plantation programme will be launched with the plan of plantation of 700 trees in one hector of land. Land for tree plantation has already been identified. In No. 2 province, land has been identified in Bara, Parsha, Rautahat and Sharlahi and in No 3 province, land in Makwanpur has been identified, reports Hamrakura Online Portal.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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