KATHMANDU: The government has distributed land ownership certificates to 23 landless squatters at wards 6 and 8 of Madhyapur Thimi Municipality in Bhaktapur district Friday.
At a program organized by the Survey Office, Bhaktapur, Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Sashi Shrestha distributed the certificates.
On the occasion, Minister Shrestha shared that around 15,000 landless squatters have been provided with land ownership certificates since the government initiated the land certificates distributing drive from Mahottari district some four months ago. The government aims to provide land ownership certificate to all the landless squatters within next year.
Minister Shrestha shared that the government is going to make arrangement of employment to the family members of martyrs, Haliyas, Kamlahari as well as marginalized community making an arrangement of survey training from this week. She further said that Land-related Act is in the final phase for the implementation in order to provide land to landless squatters and to manage unsystematic settlement.
Bagmati Province Assembly member Pratima Shrestha, Secretary Ram Prasad Thapaliya, Deputy Director General of Survey Department Sushil Dangol, Chief District Officer of Bhaktapur, Rudra Devi Sharma, Deputy Mayor of Madhyapur Thimi Municipality, Anjana Devi Madhikarmi, Chief of Survey Office, Bhaktapur, Magnu Dutta, among others were present on the occasion.
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