Lumbini. The Land Problem Resolution Commission, formed to resolve the problem of landless squatters, is implementing a long-term solution to land-related problems. The Commission has stated that preparations are being made to identify the landless, measure the land, issue public notices of claims, and distribute land documents through the Commission in coordination with the local municipality.
The government had formed the Land Problem Resolution Commission on 14 Asoj 2081 to ensure the right of landless Dalits, squatters, and unorganized settlers to live a stable life and live with dignity.
Commission Chairman Hari Rijal said that the Commission has taken forward work in collaboration with local municipalities to practically implement the rights to food, housing, and property guaranteed in the constitution. He said that work has been started in the districts with many problems across the country and thousands of land titles have been distributed.
The commission has been identifying the landless people from the ward level through a special mechanism and facilitation committee and taking them to the municipal executive. From there, the special mechanism and facilitation committee has been discussing the claims, publishing a public notice of the claim and sending the finalized details to the district.
The district-level commission will arrange land and housing only if no land is found anywhere in the country for the so-called landless people when the official details of the land revenue are checked through the government mechanisms there.
Investigation of 1.1 million applications
The Commission, which was formed on Asoj 14, 2081, in accordance with Section 52 A, Sub-section 930 and 52 B, Sub-section (6) of the Land Act, 2021, has so far proceeded with the investigation process on 1,110,985 applications from across the country, informed Commission Chairman Rijal.
Out of these, 87,844 are landless Dalits, 166,395 are landless squatters, and 856,746 are unorganized settlers. He said that the commission has so far distributed land ownership certificates to 4,993 families with assistance.
Rupandehi Chairman of the commission, Kumar Thapa, said that this time the commission is taking the initiative to solve this problem from the ground up, which creates various obstacles whenever work starts for landless squatters.
The commission’s Rupandehi office has focused the work of the district, which has many problems in the country, on the municipality. Chairman Thapa informed that surveying, revenue collection and document preparation work is underway in Butwal, Kanchan, Sainamaina, Devdaha, Tilottama, and Siyari, which have the most problems.
‘Inquiry work is underway on 76,656 applications in Rupandehi. This is the number of landless, landless Dalits and unorganized settlers,’ he said. Since six other municipalities in the district have not registered any applications in the first notice, the commission is preparing to issue the final notice for those municipalities in this Shrawan.
The commission has also intensified procedural work in various wards of Butwal, Kanchan, Sainamaina, Tilottama, Devdaha, Siddharthanagar, and Siyari in the district, including collecting data, surveying land, making database entries, publishing notices of objections to claims, determining revenue dues, and preparing red papers, informed Commission Chairman Thapa. He said that those who have cleared their revenue have started paying their revenue through banks.
Land survey of 6562 families in Butwal
Currently, procedural work including surveying is being done in Wards 1 to 4 and 11 to 14 in Butwal. The largest number of squatters and unorganized settlers in Rupandehi is in Butwal. Among them, Ward 11 of Butwal has the highest number. In Majuwa Tole of the ward alone, the commission has already published notices of claim for 1,279 families after completing the survey in coordination with the municipality.
Amin Tridev Budhathoki of the sub-metropolitan city informed that the commission is currently surveying the land of 6,562 families in coordination with the municipality in Butwal. In Kanchan Rural Municipality, the land ownership documents of about 12,000 families have reached the final stage.
In ward no. 5 alone, the land of 632 families has been surveyed and the process has been completed. Those families have now started paying the prescribed revenue through the bank. The government has fixed separate revenue for agricultural and residential land. The revenue of agricultural land has been fixed at only five percent up to six kattas.
Similarly, the commission has published a public notice of the claim of 1,660 families in Sainamaina Municipality and the documents of 11 families have been prepared in Siyari Rural Municipality, the commission said. In Devdaha, the process of surveying and verifying 1,367 families has been completed and the work of submitting revenue is underway, and the work of surveying others is underway.
The work of surveying and verifying the land of 123 households in ward no. 10 of Tilottama, the largest municipality in the district, has been completed. The commission has already issued a public notice of the claim of 123 families for the land there in coordination with the municipality, while the commission chairman Thapa informed.
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