Bhojpur, Feb 5 : Human settlements in the lower belt of Bhojpur district are being displaced with increasing rampage of monkeys.
Local dwellers have been compelled
to abandon their settlements after monkeys ruining crops cultivated in the
field. With the settlements emptying, the monkeys are coming up to the upper
belt of the district.
Most of the areas of Bhojpur are
facing troubles triggered by monkeys. Local residents of Ram Prasad Rai Rural
Municiplaity-4, Dalgaun have left the settlements due to growing monkey
invasion. Some of the folks have been displaced with the monkeys destroying
their agriculture harvests.
Tek Bahadur Tamang, a local, said
over a dozen households here left the village when monkeys frequently entered
the settlements and troubled human activities.
He further said the local people
were compelled to abandon settlements when they failed to protect their
hard-earned harvests.
"Human settlements have turned empty with the monkeys panicking the people", he said, adding, "In no time, the wild beast (monkey) come and ruin the crops cultivated for annual consumption. There is no way to chase away the rampaging monkeys in settlements".
The monkey terror has become
all-pervasive across the settlements in the lower belt of the district lately
when locals started migrating to other safer areas, Indra Bahadur Rai, a
resident of Temkemaiyung-6, Kot. There is no situation that human being can
sustain in the villages with the monkey rampage, he narrated.
Local level efforts are not turning
effective to do away with monkey horror. The wild languor has denuded the
fertile land and ruined livelihood options in villages, locals complained,
calling for the State to explore appropriate options.