Mahendrangar : The residents of Navdeep village of Dhangadhi sub-metropolitan ward number 2 have given their consent to dig a canal for draining water on their land. At the request of the Dhangadhi sub-metropolitan municipality, the landowners agreed to dig a drain in the fields to solve the city's flooding problem. The locals of Dhangadhi have agreed to dig a drain on the private land to drain the rainwater.

Annually during the rainy season, Dhangadi faces the problem of inundation. To remove the encroachment of the canal, the sub-metropolis started a campaign. On February 1st, the phase of removing the encroachment of the canal began.

. Mira Shrestha, a resident of Navdeep Tol, said that the neighbors have saved more than half a dozen houses, including their own, by letting them dig a drain in the field. 'Because the neighbors are good, they have allowed us to build a drain in the field,' he said, 'due to which our house has been saved.'

Although there is an old drain from Rashmi Medical Hall through Funpark to Mohana up to Hulaki Road, there is no drain from Vanadevi Temple on the side of Hulaki Road. Dhan Bahadur Rai said that when a drain is dug on the side of Hulaki road, it will affect the neighbor's house.

"When we dug a drain on the side of the road, our house fell down," he said.

Local Kamala Gurung owns most of the land where the canal will be constructed. Gurung said that he was ready to dig drains in the fields because every year when there is a flood in the city area, water seeps into the houses of many people.

She said, "I agreed to dig a drain from my farm first because the neighbor's house will be affected by the construction of the drain," she said.

Mayor Gopal Hamal has been saying that to solve the flooding problem, the sub-city will seek the help of the locals to open water drains. The mayor, deputy head of the ward, people's representatives, and staff are going to the doorsteps of the common people to solve the flooding problem and asking for their help. Mayor Hamal has said that the residents of Navdeep Tol have given a lot of support in the plan to solve the flooding problem.

"We opened an old drain from Rashmi Medical Hall, but we could not detect an old drain from Vandevi Bandir of Navdeep Toll," he said. We express our gratitude to them and request the residents to help in other places as well.'

Locals including Dhan Bahadur Rai, Som Bahadur Rai, Dal Bahadur Rai, Bhim Bahadur Thapa, Jit Bahadur Thapa, and Kamala Gurung of Navdeep to have given their permission to dig a drain on the numbered land.

To solve the flooding problem, more than half a dozen residents of Ward No. 2 came forward to dig a drain on their land.