Sarlahi. A serious situation of indiscriminate extraction of riverbed materials has been exposed at various ghats of the Bagmati River, which flows along the Sarlahi-Rautahat border. Uncontrolled mining has been observed from Sahnitol Ghat in Barahathwa Municipality-1, Sarlahi, to Haraiya Ghat in the Gadhimai and Brindaban municipalities of Rautahat.Machinery Hidden in Cornfields During InspectionOn Sunday morning, a team including Member of the House of Representatives Narendra Sah Kalwar and Chief District Officer Ramuraj Kadariya arrived for an inspection. As the team approached, over a dozen tippers, JCBs, and excavators involved in the extraction abandoned their work and fled toward Rautahat....