Hundreds of houses all over the district without maps

When the municipal office was moved to the district, the daily traffic of hundreds of people coming and going here increased. Dozens of shops and businesses were added here in ten years through tea shops, stationery, hotels near the city. Along with the business, Charaundi Fant was cut by the road. The whole area turned into a nightmare. Now here hand measured ghee is sold. Not only the sale, but now the Charaundi field is full of households. There are also houses in Hatia Bazar of Ward 3 and Harichour of Ward 5 as they are on the edge of Madhyapahari Lokmarg. Malm of Ward 7, Banskhola of Ward 9 have also become like a market. Places like Dudilabhati of Ward 1, Narethanti of Ward 2, Dhalepeepal of Ward 4 have now become markets. Galkot, where so many houses have been built, is not visible in the data.

Galkot municipality has not been able to regulate even though houses are being built rapidly. Since 5 years, hundreds of houses were built without informing the municipality. Since two years, the municipality has started the work of regulation. But that is not effective. Engineer Prakash Khadka of the Municipal House Map Branch claims that efforts have been made to bring everyone under the rules. According to the data given by him, so far only 18 houses have received the completion certificate. There are 35 houses in the process towards Naksapass. Khadka said that the municipality has recorded only 223 houses so far.

There are only 2 houses in Ward 1 even though they have got the certificate of completion. Even one house in Ward 2 has not been completed. Municipal hall is also built in that ward. This data shows that even the municipal council and ward office are not fully completed. Only 5 houses have been completed in Hatia Bazaar of Ward 3. There are more than 1000 houses in this market. According to the data of the municipality, three houses have been completed in Ward 4, 5 and 6, while two houses have been completed in Ward 7. In Ward 8, 9, 10 and 11, not a single house seems to have been completed. Among those in the process of

ing, there are only 8 houses in Ward 6 where Charaundi Fant is located and 10 houses in Harichour Bazar where the old headquarters is located. In other wards, it seems that only 2 to 5 houses have started the process of map pass. Since the municipality is not able to strictly enforce the construction of houses, the houses that are built randomly do not even follow the building code. "Not only is the municipality not raising taxes, they are also making their houses dangerous," said Balvikram Dahal, the municipality's engineer Manjesh Bam Malla of Galkot-5 said that the attractive Galkot, which has become a city, has become ugly. "If the municipality that started from scratch had made a plan and implemented it, it would have become a model," said Malla, "if it is left at random, the future will be confused and risky." ;

Galkot-5 The residents of Hatia, Malm and Kandebash said that when the 'Galkot Darbar' in Harichaur came, the farming in Harichaur and Charaundi stopped being seen. "Paddy was hanging all over the place, now it has become a city of houses and concrete," said local Tank Bahadur KC, "If the municipality had been strict in the beginning, there would have been some regulation, now no one bothers."

Wards 4 and 5 of current Galkot municipality, Tarakhola rural municipality and Bareng rural municipality are known as Galkot area. It is also an old Choubise state. Krishnaraj Gautam, professor of history, says that the residents of Galkot did not have to eat without food until 2004, but now they are dependent on imports for all goods. "Nowadays, you can't see rice, wheat, mustard and corn hanging in the fields of Charaundi, Lamhi and Angkhet," Gautam said.

It was an old belief to settle settlements in non-farming areas. According to Prof. Din Bahadur Thapa, the state of Galkot is self-sufficient due to the settlement of settlements by that method. Thapa is a professor specializing in the political history of Galkot. He argued that Galkot was a self-sufficient and successful state in exporting agricultural crops based on the data of sales of more than half of the land, production and population ratio at that time. "There was nothing imported in Galkot except for salt and some fancy clothes," says Thapa, "There is a history of using the arable land of Galkot to increase production." Thapa says that it is clear that they were aware of the production because the king also built a palace in Pakho where there is no cultivation.  ;

Galkot was known as granary till it was the headquarters. In 2018, the administrative center was shifted from Galkot, which was in the form of village development, to Baglung Bazar. Galkot is the kingdom ruled by Jitari Malla, the eldest son of Parbate Raja Narayan Malla since 1631. Galkot was autonomous till 1844 under the rule of Jagat Pratap Malla. Thapa said that during 213 years, 10 generations of kings had a history of ruling the state with their products. In 2017, after the last Raja Bharata Bam Malla became a member of parliament, he submitted a proposal to remove Raja Rajuta.

It is mentioned in Thapa's research that the state of Galkot extended to Kathekhola in the east, Pandavakhani in the west, Rum in Myagdi in the north and Musikot in Gulmi in the south. After the kingdom was taken away, Jagatpratap Bam Malla moved the palace to Shraddhakhet. The last king Bharat Bam built a palace in 1078 in the year 1990 in the current Harichour Bazar. According to the data of Krishi Gyan Kendra, there are 9,403 square hectares of arable land in this area. Apart from that, Galkote also used to farm in hilly settlements.

In the Galkote scheme that leads to economic prosperity, land fragmentation and the bid to become a concrete market are becoming obstacles. At this time, the municipality has not classified the land. However, houses are being built in a hurry. Even the municipality's own administrative building is being built in the cultivated area of ​​Charaundi. Galkot Nagar Chief Bharat Sharma Gayre admitted that migration and random house construction could not be stopped. "We were able to support only those who came to the municipal process, those who didn't come are in a bad situation," Gayre said. But the arable fields could not be protected. He said that the municipality can bring some strict policies for tax collection.