Nepal

The National Land Commission District Committee in Chitwan has received over 4,394 applications since it put out a notice on August 16 this year.

The service-seekers, who are either landless squatters or residing in unmanaged settlements, submitted the applications for verification of land ownership, registration certificate and field book.

With the latest submissions, the Office of Land Commission in Chitwan has received 8,526 applications.

Initially, the commission in Chitwan had received 4,132 applications from Dalit, landless squatters and residents of unmanaged settlements in the district, according to non-gazetted first class officer Kalpana Kumari Kunwar.

Among the applicants, 179 have received the land ownership certificates while other applications are under process, Kunwar said. Land mapping is also underway at various local levels in the district to allocate for deserving applicants.

Land measuring 1,773,529.866 square metres in the area has been mapped so far in Bharatpur Metropolitan City to relocate the landless squatters and those living haphazardly in illegally built structures,  Kunwar said.

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