Due to non-classification of land, allotments in 620 municipalities have come to a standstill

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Ganesh Bhatt said that the regulation is going to be amended by adding one year. He informed that the draft of the amendment has been sent to the Ministry of Law for approval. "After it comes from the law, it will be taken to the Cabinet," he said, "It will be implemented only after it is passed by the Cabinet." According to the survey department, only 133 of the 753 municipalities in the country have completely classified the land. Even in 325 municipalities that have partial classification, the distribution has been stopped. According to the department, 295 municipalities have not yet started land classification. Bhatt said that in all the municipalities that have not been classified and have been partially classified, the distribution has been stopped. "Kitakat has come to a standstill due to non-classification by the municipality. That is why the regulations are going to be amended to add one year, said Bhatt.

All the municipalities that have been partially classified and not are going to have one year more time. "Even the municipality that has done partial classification and has not started, will have to complete the classification within one year after the revision of the regulations," Bhatt said, "There has been a delay in the classification, all land classification work should be completed in the next one year." Bhatt said that although the Department of Surveyors has appointed a technician, the municipalities could not be classified due to lack of skills and technicians.

3 years after the Land Use Act, 2076, the government issued land use regulations on May 23, 2079. According to the regulations, allotment could be done only after the municipality separated agriculture and non-agriculture. Due to this policy of the government, from July of the same year, the overall real estate business started to decline. After the municipality delayed the separation of agriculture and non-agriculture, it came to a standstill from November 2079.

After the closure of Kittakat, the cabinet meeting of May 5, 2080 decided to open Kittakat by revising the regulations. But the decision had to be verified and sent to the Land Ministry for implementation. On May 12, 2080, the Council of Ministers decided to refer the matter related to land acquisition to the Economic and Infrastructure Committee.

After that, the process of studying the matter related to land acquisition was started again without finalizing the decision. Based on the study and recommendations, the cabinet meeting on July 30, 2080 decided to open the books. The revised regulation also made a flexible policy for the municipality to classify the land with one year time. According to

regulations, residential and commercial land up to 80 square meters area and agricultural land up to 1 ropani can be allotted. Earlier, residential land could not be allotted less than 130 square meters. It has been arranged that 80 square meters of land can be allotted to those who have received planning approval and 130 square meters to those who have not. Previously, there was a provision that both those who took the planning permission and those who did not take it could plot in an area of ​​less than 130 square meters.

The Nepal Land and Housing Development Federation issued a statement on Monday and demanded more time as most of the municipalities have not classified the land. The federation has also requested all municipalities to complete the work within the extended period. Bhesraj Lohani, the president of the federation, said that the work of buying and selling the land was stopped due to the standstill of Kittakat.

He says that although there will be some positive impact on the economy after the real estate business starts running, the sale has stopped again because the municipalities did not classify it. Even in unclassified municipalities, 80 square meters of land had been allotted to those who had received planning approval and 130 square meters to those who had not. But, he said, that has also stopped now.

The spokesperson of Land Management and Records Department, Roshanshankar Ghimire, said that with the stoppage of Kittakat, pressure started coming from various shipping offices. "Complaints of not being able to do allotment have started coming in the shipping offices all over the country," he said, "out of 753, 133 have been classified according to the Land Use Act, others are considered not."