NRA, Land Commission discuss on land for quake victims

Kathmandu, Jul 14

National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) and newly formed Land Commission have initiated discussion about providing the land ownership certificates to the landless earthquake-affected families.

During a meeting on Tuesday, the two government bodies discussed about the providing the land ownership to the quake beneficiaries who are landless and have got the permission to build house in the government or public land and forest land.

NRA Chief Executive Officer Sushil Gyawali urged the commission to initiate the process to provide the land ownership to the families, which have got permission to build their houses in the 32 quake affected districts.

The NRA has provided the house construction permission as well as the reconstruction grant to more than 10,000 families with the recommendation from the local governments and approval of the District Coordination Committee.

The local bodies recommend to provide land needed to build a house for the landless to the DCC and a committee led by a member of the Federal Parliament at the DCC gives approval to the proposal.

The reconstruction body said that it would provide the required statistics to the commission.

Chair of the commission Devi Gyawali pledged that he would work in coordination with the NRA in this regard.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 15 July 2020.