Demand to keep pioneer poet Bhanu Bhakta’s birthplace under federal jurisdiction

KATHMANDU: Bhanu Municipal executive has decided to keep the Adikavi Bhanu Bhakta Birthplace Development Committee under federal government jurisdiction.

The municipality demanded with a decision to operate birthplace development committee of National luminary, the symbol of linguistic unity, Acharya under the jurisdiction of the Government of Nepal.

Mayor Ananda Raj Tripathi shared that the decision was taken to request the federal government to form the Committee and operate it again as per the Development Committee Act 2013 for the development of Nepal’s pioneer poet with a broader thinking.

As per the cabinet decision of February 8, Adikavi Bhanu Bhakta Birthplace Development Committee formation order 2077 was revoked and the municipality, through the federal government, received a letter, asking it to immediately take ownership of assets, responsibility, working human resources of such organisations.

Meanwhile, the municipality is to provide landownership certificate to landless squatters, Dalits soon.

Deputy-Mayor Uma Gotame said the meeting decided to provide landownership certificate to landless squatters as soon as possible.