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 Rashtriya Sabha Griha (City Hall) tomorrow. The Prime minister will
also be present at 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.
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