Forest dept, NABARD to give skill-development training to Tharu people.

January 18, 2023

Forest department of Katarniaghat division and NABARD planning to give skill-development training to Tharu people that live near Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS).
Tharu People are ethnic group indigenous to Terai region of Himalayan foothills, located in southern Nepal. In India, they mostly lived in Utter Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand.
They speak various dialects of Tharu, a language of Indo-Aryan subgroup.
KWS is situ ated in Upper Gangetic plain falling in Terai of Bahraich district, UP.
It is part of core area of Dudhwa Tiger reserve.
It provides strategic connectivity between tiger habitat of India and Nepal.