Hanumannagar Kankalini and Saptakoshi municipalities and Tilathi Koiladi, Tirhut and Chinnamasta rural municipalities have not been able to classify the land.
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Five local levels in Saptari have not yet been able to classify land. Out of the 9 rural municipalities and 9 municipalities, only 6 rural municipalities and 7 municipalities have classified land.
Hanumannagar Kankalini and Saptakoshi municipalities and Tilathi Koiladi, Tirhut and Chinnamasta rural municipalities have not been able to classify the land.
The work of classifying the land in Hanumannagar Kankalini has not been completed. ‘We have already appointed an agent for the classification,’ said Deputy Mayor Saritadevi Yadav Sipaliya, ‘Further processes will be taken forward once the land classification work is completed.’
It has been stated that it will take another month to complete the classification process in Saptakoshi. ‘We have reached the final stage, the land will be classified in a month,’ said Mayor Ram Prasad Dhakal.
The work of classifying the land in Tilathi Koiladi has been stalled due to the inability to print the map. ‘After completing all the work to be done in the municipality, the map was sent to Kathmandu to be printed.’ But during the Gen-G movement, the map could not be printed, and later it was sent to Janakpur,' said Chairman Arun Kumar Mandal, 'There too, the map could not be printed due to problems with the printer. Now I have sent it to Biratnagar.' The Chairman Mandal said that further work will be taken up as soon as the map is printed.
Although Tirhut said that the land classification process has been completed, the file has not yet been received at the Land Reforms and Land Revenue Office. 'We have completed the process 3/4 months ago and submitted the documents to the Land Revenue Office,' said Chairman Vijay Kumar Yadav, 'I am understanding where the classification work has been stopped.' Although Chinnamasta Rural Municipality spent Rs. 940,000 in the name of land classification in the fiscal year 080/081, the land has not been classified yet.
Raju Devi Yadav, Vice Chairman of the Rural Municipality, said that the classification has not been done even though the budget allocated for land classification has been released. ‘We had already decided to allocate a budget for land classification in 2080/081. But even after the budget was released, the general public is still suffering because the classification has not been done,’ she said. ‘The chairman has more information on this matter.’
Naveen Thakur, a representative of Nishtha Engineering Contractors and Contracting Pvt. Ltd., who received payment for land classification, said that the land use plan has been prepared in the first phase. ‘We have done the work of determining the area of the land in the first phase,’ he said. ‘Now the rural municipality should allocate the land by deputing an inspector in coordination with the survey office. We had already mentioned this issue in the beginning.’
After the government issued the land use regulations on 23 Jestha 2079, the work of allotment and sub-division in the local levels that did not classify the land was being affected. After the third amendment on 27 Kartik, the allotment has been partially opened until 2083 Asar.
After the regulations were issued, Balan Bihul Rural Municipality was the first to classify land here on Magh 26, 2079. According to the Land Reforms and Land Revenue Office, Rajbiraj Municipality classified land on Shrawan 25, 2080, Bodebarsain Municipality on Shrawan 26, and Khadak, Surunga, and Dakneshwari Municipalities and Rajgadh Rural Municipality also classified land in the same year. Shambhunath and Kanchanrup Municipalities and Bishnupur, Rupani, Agnisair Krishnaswaran, and Mahadeva Rural Municipality classified land in 2081.
Kishore Kumar Ram, Chief of the Land Reforms and Land Revenue Office, Rajbiraj, said that unclassified local-level land is being divided as per the third amendment to the Land Use Regulations. ‘According to the regulations, land classified in residential and commercial areas cannot be divided into plots with an area of less than 130 square meters,’ he said.
