The World Heritage Committee,
1. Commends the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation of
Nepal (DNPWC) for devising a system of controls on the use of the Kasara
Bridge and the system of associated roads to minimize the negative impacts of
Decisions adopted at the 28th session of the World Heritage WHC-04/28 COM/26, p.79
Committee (Suzhou, 2004)
the road construction project that had been undertaken without an
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA);
2. Invites the State Party to ensure that all other sectors of Government, including
the Department of Roads and authorities representing local communities, fully
respect the decisions of and co-operate with DNPWC to ensure effective
functioning of the system of controls on the road bridge and the protection of
the World Heritage values of Royal Chitwan;
3. Recommends that the World Heritage Centre and IUCN continue to
communicate with all concerned donors to fully understand how an
infrastructure project impacting World Heritage could have been financed
without an EIA and how the recurrence of such practice could be prevented in
Nepal and elsewhere in the future.