Number of swamp deer has increased at the Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in the last five years.

Surkhet valley is facing acute shortage of drinking water with majority of the sources of drinking water projects beginning to dry up with the beginning of summer.

The sanitation identity card has been made mandatory in government offices to leverage efforts to declare Ilam an Open Defecation Free district.

In recent years, timber smuggling has alarmingly increased in the Deukhuri, Dang. The smugglers have been found adopting new strategy for timber smuggling.

Two VDCs of the district have been recently declared fully vaccinated.

Some 100 hectares of forest area in the district have already been damaged in the forest fire that continues to spread across since the past week.

Locals of Basaha-7, remote belt of the district have started to construct 1.5-kilometre road section from Basaha to Khotangre Tole at the VDC in their own initiation by raising funds at the local l

Twenty-four brick kilns in Mahottari continue to run without fulfilling the necessary criteria, despite repeated direction from the Cottage and Small Industry Office Mahottari.

Local teachers have collected donation for the construction of toilets in the homes of residents of Shivanath in Baitedi.

The number of people suffering from fever and diarrhoea is on the rise in Tanahu, with the onset of the dry season.