Environmental policy and administrative management

Toedsang village under Barshong Geog is one of the remote village under Tsirang dzongkhag. On an average, the people of this village are quite poor hardly making their living hand to mouth. Though, they fully depend on subsistence farming, few farmers of this village have lost their agricultural land due to heavy monsoon downpour sometimes in 1980 s resulting in the severe landslides .Moreover, the water source which is benefitting 18 households has been also destroyed .Still now, the farmers are undergoing through this negative environmental calamities losing portion of their arable land frequently to landslides during monsoon. Further, such incident has posed a risk to the life and property of few farmers with the narrowing of gap between the landslides areas and their home. So, this project is basically of undertaking both land management works and also water source protection/management works in the same cheog.The project sites, i.e. landslide areas and water source areas are both near having approximately of 150-200 meters in between. Through this project, the landslides area, encompassing an approximate area of five acres including Government and private land will be managed to bring stability through undertaking mass plantation of fast growing species of grasses like bamboo, Thysolonia, fodder grass slips and so on. Further, various fast growing tree seedlings including fodder and timber species will be planted. This project is aimed at improving the vegetative coverage of these open and exposed areas to minimize and bring control over the occurrence of landslides in future. The other activity includes the protection and management of the water source. Owing to the poor conditions at source, the management works like iron post fencing and taking up of mass plantation will be carried out. The main objective of this project is to improve and to stabilize the water source areas through improving the vegetative coverage to ensure the sustainable flow of clean drinking water. The other objective of this project is to prevent the biotic pressure like cattle grazing within the water source areas through taking up the iron post fencing. So the overall objective of this project is to improve the conditions of the water source to ensure the sustain flow of drinking water for all times to come.

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