Kathmandu, April 11: The Federation of Community Forest Users, Nepal (FECOFUN) has demanded the government provide free treatment to those injured in incidences of forest fire and compensation to the families of the deceased.
Issuing a press note today, the Federation expressed its serious concerns over a growing number of forest fires across the country resulting in the loss of lives and property.
The reduction in winter rainfall, continuous temperature rise, lack of public awareness, human negligence and errors, and some other causes have led to the rise in wildfire, it said, lamenting over the absence of effective measures to control the situation.
The Federation has urged the government to ensure compensation to those killed in the forest fire at Masta community forest at the Thulobheri municipality in Dolpa, in Kalikot, Bhojpur, Dhankuta and Lalitpur and free treatment to the injured.
It is said three Nepali armies were killed in the course of the attempts to take the fire control in Thulobheri.
It has also acknowledged the efforts of the community forest users in containing the forest fire. The Federation stressed the need for implementing prohibitive measures against forest fires, making citizens widely aware of legal actions for the responsibility for causing the fire.
