Minister Shrestha vows to make land management services more convenient, transparent

KATHMANDU: APRIL. 13 – The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation is to mark the centenary of the first registration of land records in the country for three days from today by organizing various programmes.

A special programme is to be organized at the Rastriya Sabha Griha (City Hall) tomorrow. The Prime minister will also be present in this event. All the land reform and land revenue offices under the Land Management and Archives Department and the Land Survey Department will provide information regarding the latest reforms carried out so far in the land administration sector.

Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Shashi Shrestha shared at a press conference here today that the land-related services were being provided from 126 offices across the country. She said efforts were on to make these services convenient, simplified and transparent.

The Land Management Minister said that the necessary plan and programmes have been formulated for implementing the land use policy and Act for checking the fragmentation and plotting of cultivable land and to make land management works more effective.

She said 106 landless families from the Dalit community at the Mushahar settlement in Dudhauli of Sindhuli district have been provided with land plots. The Ministry is also planning to set up additional land management offices in Rukum, Banke, Mahottari and Dadeldhura.

The first land deed registration was passed on Baisakh 1, 1979 BS in the country, the Ministry has said.