Kathmandu. The National Agricultural Bonded Workers’ Struggle Committee has urged the Land Problems Resolution Commission to address their land-related demands.
In an interaction program organized at the commission’s office here today, the committee’s representatives urged the implementation of the commitments and agreements made earlier to address the problems of freed agricultural bonded workers including Harwacharwa, Haliya, Kamaiya, Kamlari.
In the program, a team led by the coordinator of the Struggle Committee, Darshan Lal Mandal, drew the attention of the commission to their demands. The committee has demanded that no fees be charged from them while collecting and verifying the records of landless, unorganized settlements and squatters, adopting agricultural bonded labor-friendly policy processes and distributing land.
Defining these groups as special communities, they should be managed in a way that does not reduce at least two kathas of land for housing and eight kathas of land for agricultural work in the places where they are currently living and using it, and that the land should be managed in a safe place by measuring education, health and employment opportunities while providing land.
The committee urges the commission to ensure the participation of agricultural bonded laborers as rights holders while coordinating and collaborating with the provincial and local governments, and to prioritize these groups in the land distribution and other processes. .
In addition, it has been requested to immediately instruct all local levels not to displace people from their current places of residence until the land is distributed. Similarly, there has been a demand to clarify and implement the problems and ambiguities seen in the scope of the commission and the agreements between the government of Nepal and the freed Harwacharwa, Haliya, Kamaiya and Kamlari.
During this time, expert members of the commission, Dr. Jagat Basnet, Tek Bahadur Shahi and member Govardhan Koli, expressed their commitment to move forward with the commission’s action plan to resolve the land-related problems of the freed Harwacharwa, Haliya, Kamaiya and Kamlari, informed Ganesh Bishwakarma, patron of the National Dalit Network (RDN) Nepal.
The program was attended by the coordinator of the struggle committee and the presidium of the National Free Harwacharwa Rights Forum, President of the National Free Haliya Society Federation, Ishwor Sunar, President of the Freed Kamaiya Society, Pashupati Chaudhary, President of the Freed Kamlari Development Forum A joint letter of appeal signed by Hiramoti Chaudhary, Kamaiya Mahila Jagran Samaj, Nepal President Krishna Tharu, Housing and Land Rights Union President Rajuram Bhol, and RDN Vice President Shyam Sunar was submitted to the Commission.
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