With electric fencing gone, elephant encounters rise

The animals destroy houses and crops making life difficult for residents of Baduwal village.

Mahabir Chhetri, a local of Baduwal village in ward 3 of Dodhara Chandani Municipality, lost his crops to a herd of wild elephants that entered his field three weeks ago. Chhetri had planted paddy, maize and sesame in five kattha [1 kattha is 338.63 sq metres] of land hoping for a good yield.