Butwal, June 26: Day after day problems have cropped up in the development of Lumbini due to poor implementation of the Lumbini Master Plan and resulting failure to attain targets.

Renowned Japanese Architect Prof. Kenjo Tange had laid out the master plan with three zones of one square mile each for the systematic development of Lumbini.

Under the master plan, the southern zone is meant for laying out a sacred garden, the middle one for a monastic area and the northern one for a new Lumbini village.

Experts now say the master plan designed by Prof. Tange is not appropriate from an archaeological viewpoint.

Prof. Ram Niwas Pandey is of the opinion that the master plan needs to be reviewed since it did not take into account the effect of underground water and the acid and other chemical reaction that will result when the sacred complex is surrounded by water as proposed.

Over the last 22 years only the Chinese Monastery have been completed at the Monastic zone under the agreement reached for laying out some 24 International Vihars and Monasteries.

At present, some 12 monasteries are under construction in the zone which is divided into 42 plots.

One reason why Lumbini could not be developed as per the master plan is that a number of organisations which have occupied the land have been interested only in financial activities.

Lack of sincerity is the reason for failure to attain the master plan target even 22 years after it was brought out, Bhikchu Ashwaghosh said.

Chairman of Save Lumbini Kapilvastu campaign Narayan Prasad Poudel says it was a mistake for the master plan not to include the Tilaurakot-Kapilvastu to Devdaha-Ramgram area also.

Since the Lumbini area was not accorded top priority by the National Planning Commission or by donor agencies or the country, the work there has remained incomplete, ex-MP Deep Kumar Upadhyaya says.

The target was to plan completed the development work at Lumbini by 1985.