Mahendranagar, Feb. 26: the district forest office kanchanpur has evicted several families  settling and carrying out illegal farming by   encroaching upon 75 bighas of land near the khula  mandhitti at the mahakali river banks two kms east of the bramhadev mandi at ward No. 9 of mahendranagar municipality.

A team of  police  and forest security guards led by assistant forest officer deepak gyawali uprooted wheat crops in about 15  bighas of land and 63 houses in 60 bighas of land were destroyed since the occupants ignored the  requests to empty the land they had been occupying since one and half years ago by destroying the forests.

Before  setting fire to  the houses built haphazardly by encroaching upon the  forest land, the cattle, goods and other properties  were safely brought out of the houses.

Meanwhile, the District Forest Products Supplies Committee formed under the chairmanship of district forest officer Ashok Dhungana has started to sell fuel wood by opening depots in five places keeping in view the  needs of the general public.

The people can buy firewood  at Rs. 1 per kg.

Arrangements have also been made to provide timber from the depots to the fire victims or the ones  who want to construct houses and prepare agriculture   implements  at Rs. 265 per cubic feet.