17 Nov, 2025
Management Plan and Information System Development and Implementation for Critical Watershed (Mid-Marsyangdi Watershed Area, Lamjung, Gandaki Province, Nepal)
Client Name and Address: Department of Forests and Soil Conservation Address: Babarmahal, Kathmandu, Nepal
Period : 2.5 (From 17.04.2022 to 04.07.2022)
Person months : 232.5
Narrative description of Project: : The main objective of the project was to collect bio-physical and socio-cultural information of the Mid-Marsyangdi watershed area, prioritize sub-watersheds based on the collected information, and prepare a watershed management plan of a highly critical sub-watershed for its sustainable management. In addition, study aimed to prepare
Description of actual services provided in the assignment: The following services were provided:
- Identified the sub-watershed area and prioritized them in accordance to the urgency,
- Prepared profile which included basic social, economic, climate, hydrology, geological and biological/physical data within the watershed area,
- Monitored the Land Use Land Cover Change over time within watershed area, identification, and restoration of damaged land,
- Defined the effects of various infrastructural development and hydropower plant to the watershed area,
- Identified and locating the various water sources,
- Defined the cultural, historical, and environmental significance of the area,
- Located the area where natural calamities have occurred in present and past and preparing for future,
- Analyzed the natural and man-made stresses to the watershed area,
- Prepared a watershed management plant of the most critical sub-watershed (i.e. Beshishahar)
- Recommended the possible solution to different challenges and obstacles faced during the conservation and management activities.
