Warning of disruption of railway operations if compensation dispute is not resolved immediately
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Farmers of Mahottari Bardiwas staged a dharna at the Railway Department office in Kathmandu on Thursday because of the delay in resolving the dispute regarding the compensation of the land acquired by the Railway Department.
Broad gauge has not been extended to Bardiwas because of the compensation dispute. Although the railway service has been started after the construction of broad gauge from Jayanagar to Bhangaha in Mahottari, due to the compensation dispute, the railway work has been stopped in the Bardiwas section.
In the attention letter given to the railway department by the Bardiwas Railway Project Victims Sangharsh Committee, it is said, "Despite long petitions and repeated requests regarding the grievances against us, there is no initiative to resolve the compensation dispute. We have reached the stage of fasting to death through the last stage of dharna and relay hunger strike."
Niraj Adhikari of Sangharsh Samiti warned that if the compensation dispute is not resolved in time, the work of the railway project will be interrupted. "For a long time, we have only been entangled in compensation," said the official, "if the compensation is not distributed properly, we will disrupt the work of the train."
Sangharsh Committee has also expressed anger that no action was taken against Ojha when the chief of Janakpur Railway Office, Vinod Ojha, informed the department with evidence that he had broken the rules and distributed the compensation to Bardiwas and Bhangaha in the railway department on 23rd of November.
In the discussion with the director general of the railway department and the employees, they said that although there was an agreement to solve the compensation problem as soon as possible, even after 3-4 months, the problem is still the same.
According to the officials of the Sangharsh Committee, although the railway department promised to prepare a report and pay the compensation after correcting the error, the file was sent to the Ministry of Physical Construction and from there the file was sent to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
