Squatter settlements at Balkhu demolished (photo feature)

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, May 1: Shelters at Balkhu-based squatters settlement have been demolished using dozers with heavy security.

District administration office, Kathmandu, had issued warning on Wednesday to vacate the settlement by Thursday evening as they were built in public land.

The residents of the settlement were transferring their goods following the notice till this morning when the dozers were demolishing their houses.

The government has started campaign to vacate squatters' settlement built in public land along rivers in the Kathmandu valley. The second phase of demolishing such settlement has started today and there are preparations to vacate squatters' settlements in places such as Teku, Banshighat, Shankhamul, Buddhanagar, Balkhu, Kuleshor, Kapan, Basundhara, Gongabu, Balaju and Machhapokhari.

In the first phase, settlements at Gairigaun in Sinamangal, Shanti Nagar, Manohara and Thapathali area were vacated and structures pulled down.

Photos: Keshab Gurung/TRN

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