RANJHA: The District Administration Office, Ranjha has mobilized security personnel to prevent the extraction in the rivers of the district.
After reports that extraction of river products in Raptisonari and Duduwa Rural Municipalities was rife, authorities took the decision to mobilize security personnel, said Chief District Officer, Ram Bahadur Kurumba.
Nine people were arrested recently along with six tractors of sand which they extracted on Rapti riverbed.
Legal action has been initiated against them, according to Kurumba.
Dozer have been used in the local streams of the two rural municipalities to extract sand and gravel.
Ward Chairman of Duduwa-5, Parshuram Budhathoki, said the river products were extracted during the day and night.
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