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Kathmandu, 11 June:Over 10,000 hectares of forest land has been encroached upon in the district of Kapilvastu. The Forest Division Office in Kapilvastu said various schools, organizations, individuals, temples and schools have encroached upon the forest land for various purposes over the last one and a half decades.

Until 2001, 62,112 hectares of land was recorded in Kapilvastu, according to the land utilization data. But 106, 44 hectares of land has been encroached upon so far since the data were recorded in 2001,reports myrepublica.

People’s News Monitoring Service