The families who came into contact have been taken to Dasharath Stadium, their details have been collected, and arrangements have been made for them to stay in various places in Kathmandu.
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68 families living in Thapathali have come in contact with the government, and the number of families coming in contact from other places is continuing, according to the Prime Minister's Secretariat.
The families who came in contact have been taken to Dasharath Stadium, their details have been collected and arrangements have been made for their accommodation in various places in Kathmandu. Currently, household goods have been kept safely at Radhaswamy Satsang Vyas in Sundarighat.
The work of identifying the families placed in temporary places whether they are real squatters or not will begin from tomorrow. During the verification, the families who are certified as squatters will be placed in an 'apartment' in Nagarjuna Municipality Ward No. 1 within two weeks. After that, their long-term management work will begin.
The government is continuing the work of evacuating settlements built on river banks and risky areas and public and government land in the Kathmandu Valley.
In this process, the settlement on the banks of the Bagmati River in Thapathali, Ward No. 11 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, was evacuated today. The process of evacuating settlements is ongoing in Gaerigaun-Sinamangal in KMC Ward No. 9 and Shantinagar in Ward No. 31.
The Prime Minister's Secretariat has stated that preparations are being made to vacate illegally constructed settlements in Gothatar Buddhachowk of Kageshwori Manohara Municipality-8 and Manohara Tole of Ward No. 9 in Kathmandu.
According to the data of the Kathmandu Valley Development Authority, there are a total of 871 squatter households, including 476 in Shantinagar, 162 in Gaerigaun, 143 in Thapathali, 77 in Gothatar and 13 in Manohara Tole.
A joint team of Nepal Police, Armed Police Force Nepal and Kathmandu Metropolitan City Police removed the illegally constructed structures and vacated those areas. The team of security personnel had helped remove the belongings of the citizens living in those places and move them elsewhere.
