6,000 plus landless receiving land ownership certificates in Province-1

Biratnagar / Dec 19: The Province-1 government is all set to distribute land ownership certificates to landless squatters. The squatters living in Mai Municipality and Madsebung Rural Municipality will get the land ownership certificates in the first phase.

A total of 6,515 households are getting the certificates soon. The Province-1 government is providing land ownership certificates to 100,000 squatters of different 30 local level governments in the Province.

According to Chairman of the Commission for Land Management, Devi Gyawali, the process for distributing the land ownership certificate had already begun. The agreement papers among the concerned bodies were already signed. There are a total of 957 landless households in Mai Municipality, while 3,238 other families are living in unmanaged settlements there.

According to a record, a total of 4,195 households are listed as the beneficiaries. As many as 49 families are Dalit landless squatters and 471 are from other community in Mangsebung Rural Municipality.

Chairman Gyawali further said that the government was providing land ownership certificates to landless squatters after preparing a working procedures after bringing the 8th amendment on Land Related Act 2021 BS. RSS