State oppression of the landless

This year the rains are more than average and Arighopte is experiencing torrential rains. Whether triggered by earthquakes or due to indiscriminate unscientific development, landslides, landslides, and flooding in settlements continue.

In addition to being affected by natural disasters and losing their lives, their families are in trouble. As a result, the number of landless and squatters is increasing in the country. The pain of destruction of the houses, goods, and crops that they owned until a moment ago due to natural disasters, now in the eyes of the state and the citizens of the state, they will start to become a burden in an unknown way. Landless and squatters who are temporarily and irregularly living on government land, forest, ailani and river upland land in various districts of Nepal are becoming a burden.

According to Article 16 of the Constitution of Nepal 2072, every person will have the right to live with dignity. But the landless and squatter every day local body, forest administration or any other body

He is forced to live in fear of being ordered to run a dozer in his hut. A landless squatter citizen has the same rights as any other citizen. But here the state first gives certificates of poverty and landlessness to the poor and then ignores the proof and runs a dozer on the poor indiscriminately. Some people accuse the poor, the destitute, of trespassing and interfering with the state's property. Can the state touch the real trespassers? On June 9, 2015, a dozer was driven into the houses of 10 landless families who have been living since 2059 in Hasanpur of the old airport of Dhangadhi-1 Kailali, due to the permission given by the state and the reason for landlessness.

42 degree Celsius temperature, pregnant women, elderly and children were shown inhumanity regardless. Similarly, on June 11, the district forest office indiscriminately bulldozed the houses of the flood victims living in Bhajani-1 and 9 of Kailali without informing the local government and made around 500 families homeless. In this rain, they are hiding under the tent and waiting for justice, looking at the road. In the twenty-first century, a country that has gone to a republican and federalist system, what other brutal inhumanity would it do to its citizens? Who will make up for the damage caused to the mentality of the children living in those houses when the houses are destroyed indiscriminately, the books are destroyed?

In the name of protecting the encroached land, in different districts of Nepal, some local bodies, some forest division, some people with access, some rich people and some the government are trying to vacate squatter settlements. But before doing that, who is responsible for finding out whether the people living in those slums are squatters or not, and who is responsible for rehabilitating those who are real squatters? It belongs to the local body.

The land surveyors department, land reform office in the district has a record of the actual condition of the land owned by each citizen. If there is no record, he has the right to maintain the record after measuring. If the employees and officials in responsible positions act with honesty, records of everything can be collected within a few days or months. Once arrangements have been made to relocate the actual squatters, the squatters living in the risk areas are removed. But a situation should not be created where even one person has to sleep under the open sky in the name of protecting encroached land. Only restoration with alternatives and conservation of encroached land is acceptable.

The Housing Rights Act 2075 has made separate provision regarding housing rights of every citizen of Nepal. It has guaranteed that every citizen has the right to suitable housing and that such rights are respected, protected and fulfilled in accordance with the law. Landless and homeless means a person who does not own any real estate within the state of Nepal or his family and is unable to manage housing through his or his family's income, resources or efforts, and who has been permanently displaced due to natural calamities and his family. And if some people and officials of the state disregard the existing constitution and laws in the country, from whom can ordinary citizens guarantee their safety?

Constitution and country are not only for those in power and powerful. When the state itself declares landless squatters and allows them to live on government land by giving proof of Nissa, it should be understood that if no one can speak against the power of the squatters who are trying to demolish the towers of squatters in the 42 degree Tantlapur sun, then the new constitution is also stupid. Let the government become aware of the forces that try to bring instability again by reducing the incidents of forced displacement.