Kathmandu. Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Balram Adhikari, has urged all the local levels to complete the land classification work by mid-July. Responding to the queries raised during the discussion on the proposal to consider the Bill to amend some Nepal Acts related to land, 2082 BS in today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, Minister Adhikari said that various problems would arise if the land is not classified within the stipulated time frame.
“All the municipalities have been asked to classify the land by mid-July. If there is no classification by that time, the allotment will be stopped. Buying and selling will be stopped,” he said.
Minister Adhikari said that the bill related to land has been brought with the objective of making the work related to real estate easier and to manage the landless, slum dwellers and unorganized settlements. “Various regulations, procedures and orders have also been issued to ease and streamline the land-related arrangements. Other laws have also been enacted and work is gradually being made easier. This bill has been brought to remove some more difficulties in the law,” he said.
He clarified that at present, there is a provision that the local level cannot buy and sell agricultural land for other purposes by categorizing the land. Minister Adhikari clarified that there was no truth in the questions and doubts raised in the parliament that the bill has been brought to help the land mafia and middlemen.
“There have been questions about distributing land to rich capitalists. There is no truth in that. The provisions made in the bill are related to buying and selling of private land and not government land by the companies dealing in real estate,” he said. There have been more than 100 such petitions since 2017. We have said that we will regulate it. This is according to the method of the past. ’
Today’s meeting of the House of Representatives was scheduled to approve the proposal seeking consideration of the Bill to amend some Nepal Acts related to land, 2082 BS. When Speaker Devraj Ghimire presented the proposal for decision, Chief Whip of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Hitraj Pandey urged the government to confirm the quorum.
According to Article 94 of the Constitution of Nepal, only 65 members were present in the House as per Article 94 of the Constitution of Nepal.
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