Madhav Prasad Baral, an official at Kaski District Forest Office (DFO), said, “Locals had been long been demanding tourism promotion of the area through Rani Forest. We have started construction of the park responding to their demands.”[break]
The government had decided to construct the bio-diversity park in Rani Forest in July, 2010. Earlier, the Department of Botany has collected suggestions from stakeholders on construction of the park.
The Rani Forest spreads in an area of 165 hectors. Of this, 57 hectors will be developed as biodiversity park, informed Baral. “As a major chunk of the forest land falls in the Phewa Lake area, we could only use 57 hectares for the park.”
DFO aims to complete fencing the forest by next year, said Baral. He also said a master plan for development of the park would be prepared within the next six months. “We can estimate the cost of the park only after preparing the master plan,” he added.
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