As I got selected to participate in 10^TH edition of SAESM to be held in Lahore, Pakistan, I?m conducting a research on ?Political Economy of Forest Encroachment and Community Forestry (CF) Governance in Nepal?. This paper is about to conclude, I have drawn following result which are given below.

Discussion on Result Obtained

1-  Sindhuli had experienced 1125.0 ha of land encroachment till 2011 whose minimum monitory value was Rs 181,103,402.73. However, encroachment and its monitory value became 7,272.75 ha and Rs 10,637,550,955.82 respectively till 2013.

The main cause to fuel up this encroachment is found to be the issues of rehabilitating freed Kamayas, land mafias and landless squatters whose activities are protected by political parties to fulfill their political interest.

2-  Till 2011, tree species of value Rs 88,157,861.15 was found to be vanished and in 2013 it was rocketed to Rs 405,822,681.42.

There was about 4.60 times increase in the value of trees vanished due to encroachment.

3-  Shorea robasta is severely affected due to encroachment as its lost value was Rs. 83,555,651.5 in 2011 and rocketed to Rs. 361,277,292.8 in 2013. The loss is increased by about 4.32 times.

Shorea robusta is severely affected by this encroachment as it is very high value species abundantly found in this region.

4- Till 2011, encroachment in the range posts touching southern belt (Southern Aspect) was calculated as 737.54ha with monitory value Rs. 154,415,555.82 and in the remaining aspects 387.5 ha with value of Rs.114, 845,708.06 was found to be encroached.

The reason was purely political due to the conflict between Terian (people of Indian in origin) and Hilly people in terai. Due to the conflict hilly people were displaced to the upper parts of the country.

5- Similarly, till 2013 encroachment in the range posts touching southern belt (Southern Aspect) was calculated as 3,110.9 ha with monitory value Rs. 9,994,195,215.10 and in the remaining aspects 4,161.85 ha with value of Rs. 1,049,178,422.14 was found to be encroached.

The encroachment was increased in remaining aspects as compared to southern aspect as hilly people started to search a secure residence after terai conflict.

6- The community Forest Users Groups was on the process of being more socially inclusive. Although there is no direct intervention of political parties on this institution but the leaders of CFUGs were found to be directly involved in political parties.

In the SAESM of last year, I became the first Nepali student to secure SAESM award in research paper presentation. I hope I?ll be able to maintain this position for this year as well.