Bhojpur, June 24: The Pauwadungma Rural Municipality of Bhojpur is planning to sterilise monkeys to control the monkey menace.
While the federal government is preparing guidelines for monkey control, the rural municipality is going to sterilise the local monkeys in coordination with the federal government.
The rural municipality chairperson Kiran Rai informed that the rural municipality’s 19th municipal assembly, which started on Tuesday, included plans to carry out study, research and sterilisation programmes for monkey control in its budget and programmes for the fiscal year 2083/84.
“Monkeys have become an intractable problem for farmers. We are preparing to run a sterilisation programme to control monkeys. Our goal is to implement the programme in coordination with the federal government,” Rai said.
According to the rural municipality, the aim is to control the monkey population through sterilisation and find a long-term solution. Technical staff will be deployed, necessary equipment provided, and cooperation with relevant bodies will be ensured for this purpose.
The rural municipality has stated that this will help reduce human-monkey conflict. As monkeys started causing irreparable damage to crops, the vice-chairperson of the rural municipality, Jyotsna Rai, said they are going to sterilise monkeys to control their population.
Recently, the number of monkeys has been increasing rapidly in various wards of the rural municipality. The monkeys have been causing damage especially to maize, millet and potato crops. The rural municipality has allocated a budget of Rs 500 thousand in the first phase for carrying out study and research for monkey control measures.
