The life of Murali Nepalis of Rasuwa's Kalika rural municipality-3, Itpare is like a mountain of pain, lack and neglect. Murali, who is now 70 years old, never experienced happiness.

He had no land since his grandfather's time. He was born landless. He lived on another's land in Itpare, a village brought by his mother. Later he was expelled from there. Around the year 2054, he built a small hut in a tree branch of the village with the help of the public representative. That hut is still his shelter today.

Murli dug up the leaves of the tree and made small gardens that grow a few vegetables. He has been struggling for 20 years in the land rights campaign in the hope of getting the same Surka land. At the same time, sometimes they stood on the streets of Kalikasthan and shouted slogans in the hot sun, sometimes they participated in the Malpot, Napi, district administration of the headquarters Dhunche, and sometimes they participated in the Vankali, Khulamanch and Maitighar protests in Kathmandu. A few times he has even entered the Singha Darbar. His dream of getting spare parts is still unfulfilled.

They are repeatedly made to fill forms for spare parts, dream of getting spare parts but they all prove to be false. The only wish left for him is to have the rights of about 2 ropanis of steep land, which he has tilled himself for 28 years, sharing every dust of the soil and affinity with the plants, come to his name. There is also a small hut where his property, the basis of living or let's say life, whatever he is. 

Muralis' file After completing all the necessary procedures from the local level, the district committee issued a notification. After the notification was issued, Lamtang National Park complained and said that the land where Murli is living is in the middle area, it cannot be given. 

The work done by the district committee was not wrong. According to the law, even though it was a forest in the past, the land that has now been turned into an awadi and has no trees can be given. The District Committee wrote to the Central Commission on June 27, 2078, along with a letter from the park administration there, asking what can be done. The commission sent a letter to the district committee on July 4, 2078 that the land can be given and no legal basis is found in the park administration's letter. However, in the letter of the park, it was only said not to distribute the land, there was no mention of the section or sub-section of the law. Meanwhile, the commission itself was dissolved on July 19, 2078.

In July 2078, the National Land Commission was formed under the chairmanship of Keshav Niraula. In the formation order, there was a mandate to continue where the old work had stopped. But the municipality and ward asked Murali to apply again. Submitted a request. The commission could not give anything but one petition in 24 months tenure. 

2080 On Chait 8, the commission was dissolved again. Murali also filed a case in the court with the help of land rights activists - Why was land not given to us as per the provisions of Article 40 of the Constitution which states that land should be given to the landless Dalits for housing and agriculture. Murali is now awaiting the court's verdict. 

2081 On October 13, the Land Problem Resolution Commission was again formed under the chairmanship of Hari Rizal. Murali's certification application has been moved again. But then again, there are also reports that the park is intervening.

Even if we talk about the intermediate area, the area was declared an intermediate area after one year of Murli's settlement. All the human settlement and agriculture in that area. Again, in the Parks Act itself, it is written that there will be no impact on the land ownership of the intermediate area. What is the reason why Murali Nepali will not get the land of intermediate? Where should he go now looking for a place to live? Whereas, in order to provide land to citizens like Murali, it is clearly written in Article 40 of Nepal's Constitution - "Landless Dalits will be given land for housing and agriculture for once." Can anyone take away the rights of the constitution? Sometimes I feel that even the constitution of this country is ashamed, seeing that the justice here is administered according to the status of the person, and the law is administered according to the interpretation of the staff. 

This problem is not only in the middle of Lamtang Park, but also in Bardia, Chitwan, Makwanpur and other Kayin districts. Murali's story is representative. There are thousands of such landless people who spend most of their lives dreaming of a piece of land. The truth that everyone must accept is that citizens like Murli are not the enemies of forests, parks or middlemen, they are lawless guards of their own country. Empowering them also means making the state just. 

Even now, if the dream of the landless Murli remains incomplete, it is not only the defeat of Murli, it is the moral defeat of the local government, the dozens of commissions created in the name of the landless, the government employees who are getting paid from citizens' taxes to provide services to the citizens, people's representatives, organizations and organizations working in favor of the poor, policy makers, the government and the entire nation.