BIRGUNJ: More than 1,400 households of Tangiya settlement at Jitpursimara Sub-Metropolitan City in Bara district do not have land ownership certificate. They are forced to live as landless squatters.

Though such number of families from different communities including Brahman, Chhetri, Tamang and Bishwokarma has been living there since the last 44 years, they have not yet been provided with land ownership certificate.

A local woman leader, Pabitra Sundar, said that they are now worried whether they would be shifted from there after the construction of the second international airport. Around four billion rupees has been estimated to shift the settlement.

Mayor of Jitpursimara Sub-Metropolitan City, Dr Krishna Poudel, said, “We are considering three nearby places—Pasaha, Haraiya and Tamagadhi for shifting these families and a study was underway in this connection.”