Despite having lived there for five decades, four Gandharva families in Tansen Municipality-7, Bensitol, did not have land title deeds. Their demand that the land they had been living on for a long time should be in their names was not met. However, a person promised to provide the land title deeds. For that, the four families collected 1.8 million rupees and handed it over to the person. Kalpana Gandharva said that the land was initially purchased for 800 rupees. According to her, the receipt for paying the land fee is safe. ‘Some people came again saying that the land title deeds were in someone else’s name,’ she said, ‘We were forced to repurchase the land we were sitting on after trying to settle down.’ According to the Gandharva family, the land title deeds were made on Bhadra 18, 2078. ‘Even though the land is registered in the name, I am not happy,’ said local Parbati Gandharva, ‘The loan incurred while building the land in the name of the land has not been paid off.’ A person from Tinau-6, Masyam had shown the land title deed claiming the land they are living on as his. After that, she said that she had to buy the land and settle down as she had no other option. She said that she did not imagine that someone would come with the land title deed. They had applied to the Sukumvasi Problem Resolution Commission for the land title deed.

A person reached the ward office with the land title deed for a five-ropani land in Byarghari, Prabhas, Telgha, Tansen-10. The ward office did not recommend passing the land saying that the land title deed of Byarghari had been submitted. The ward office said that it did not recommend passing the land after the locals indicated that it was public. Local Nagendraraj Neupane said that he has seen vacant and public land since 2016. He has had to file a case against the ward office after it refused to give a recommendation.

These are just a few examples. After the Land Revenue Office was burned down on 18 Magh 2062 during the armed conflict, the process of issuing land titles for public land in the district began. According to the Land Revenue staff, initially, they searched for such lands and made fake land titles for those mentioned as vacant in the field book and inserted them into the Moth.

In the past, public lands that were shown as vacant in the field books of Land Revenue and Survey were public lands. Recently, land titles have been made for those lands. "After the Land Revenue Office was burnt down, it has been seen that the land mafia has started eyeing public and private land," said Mohanlal Gaire, former chairman of the Land Problems Resolution Commission. "Mainly, the collusion of land revenue employees, accountants, and land mafia has been seen in this. Cases of public and public land being transferred to individuals by making fake land documents have been coming to light one after another." According to him, more than 350 suspicious land documents were found among the applications filed with the commission. The original land titles of Rampur Municipality, Mathagadhi Rural Municipality, Tinau, Rainadevi Chhahara, and Tansen Municipality in the district have been destroyed. They have been maintaining their land titles by submitting land titles, land deeds, and receipts of payment of taxes by submitting the land titles. Such people have been issuing land titles for gardens, orchards, and lands used for dancing and singing for generations. Since there is a government land description book, it is being verified accordingly. Land Administration Office Chief Durga Prasad Khanal said that there is a problem as there is no basis to verify whether other lands are public or not. The responsibility of the local level ward office lies with the land ownership and other matters. After the ward office receives the land title deed and the receipt of payment of the tax, the land revenue registration and records are checked. Chief Khanal says that even if a person has a title deed but it is not found in the records, it becomes a matter of suspicion.

The local levels of the district have not paid attention to the protection of government, public and abandoned land. Although a public land search campaign was started last time, it has not been completed. They have not paid attention to anything other than the data released by the Land Problems Resolution Commission. ‘They have come with receipts for paying public land taxes,’ said Him Lal Pangeni, ward chairman of Tansen-10, Telgha. ‘Some come saying that they found old land titles.’

In Rampur Municipality, unorganized settlers have not received land ownership titles. In Rampur, there are 1,218 landless people, 65 Dalit squatters, and 71 other squatters. In Tansen Municipality, there are 1,227 landless people, 174 Dalit squatters, and 325 other squatters. In Purbakhola, there are 26 unorganized people, in Mathagadhi, there are 663 unorganized people, and 7 other squatters. In Tinau, there are 1,613 unorganized people, 45 Dalit squatters, and 245 other squatters. In Rainadevi Chhahara, there are 1,063 unorganized, 6 Dalit squatters and 24 others.