CPN Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal has taken information from Madi locals in Chitwan district about their demands.
The locals at Madi Municipality in the district had not allowed the local authority to retrieve the bodies of two women who were killed in wild elephant attack on Wednesday noon.
They had also taken to street and had obstructed the vehicular movement demanding the permanent solution to their perpetual problem with the district authorities, the menace of wild elephants. But following the talks held yesterday between the locals and local authority concerned, the protest was called off.
Dahal, who is also the lawmaker elected from the same place, has inquired about the demands of the people of Madi area with Chief District Officer (CDO) of Chitwan, Jitendra Basnet.
CDO Basnet shared,"Chairperson Dahal has taken stock of the demands put forth by the Madi locals and has pledged to address them."
Basnet himself had reached Madi to hold talks with the protesting locals following the telephone talk with Dahal, also the former Prime Minister.
The protest had been called off after an agreement were reached to provide the victim's families Rs 25,000 as support to conduct the obsequies rituals, provide compensation to the victim's families within a month, providing compensation to the families of those who lost their lives to the attack of wild animals and to curb the entry of wild elephants to the human settlement.
Similarly, the local authority has agreed to track down the wild elephants that killed Sushila Bhandari, 35, and Trishna Kali Poudel, 60, while they were cutting grass for fodder at Madi Municipality-9 along the bank of the Reu River and cut short its tusk.
Furthermore, agreement was made to consider amendment in the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act in the best interest of the locals, among others.
The Madi Municipality has agreed to provide Rs 500,000 to the family of deceased Bhandari. The amount will be spent over the education of the deceased's two sons. Likewise, the son of Poudel would be provided job in the Madi Municipality.
A total of eight persons in the National Park and the buffer zone areas in Chitwan district have lost their lives to the attack of the wild animals as of now in the current fiscal year.
