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Bagmati River floods underscore critical need for sustainable resolution to Kathmandu's landless squatters issue

KATHMANDU, Aug 10: Maiya Ale has been residing on the Bagmati River banks with her children for the past 36 years. She is a landless squatter. After the death of her spouse of paralysis 11 years ago, the responsibility of raising and educating their children fell on her shoulders. She has been supporting her family as a street vendor in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC). But the KMC’s action against street vendors in the form of chasing them away and snatching their goods and stall equipment has taken its toll on them.

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Kathmandu landless squatters stage protest against Mayor Balen Shah

A group of landless squatters on Monday staged a protest in Kathmandu against the city's mayor Balen Shah. The post Kathmandu landless squatters stage protest against Mayor Balen Shah appeared first on OnlineKhabar English News.

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Kathmandu city govt’s another 7-day notice to remove riverside shanties of landless squatters

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Can’t remove landless squatters’ settlements from Kathmandu: Home Ministry tells city govt

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Land Commission directs not to demolish buildings in Bagmati corridor

KATHMANDU, Dec 2: The Land Commission has directed the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) not to relocate the landless squatters living in Bagmati corridor. The KMC had begun taking action demolishing houses and buildings at Thapathali, Bagmati corridor – built encroaching the Bagmati River. Soon after the government’s move, the landless squatters took to the street and obstructed the KMC’s action. As many as 18 Metropolitan Police personnel were injured in the clash between landless squatters and the government.

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Landless squatters gherao Kathmandu city office to protest eviction plan

Around 300 landless squatters on Tuesday gheraoed the Kathmandu metropolitan city office to protest the city government's plan to evict them from the Thapathali slum area on a bank of the Bagmati. The post Landless squatters gherao Kathmandu city office to protest eviction plan appeared first on OnlineKhabar English News.

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Kathmandu’s Thapathali tense as landless squatters fight with city police

The situation around the landless squatter settlement on the banks of the Bagmati at Thapathali in Kathmandu turned tense on Monday. The post Kathmandu’s Thapathali tense as landless squatters fight with city police appeared first on OnlineKhabar English News.

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Over 800 houses in Bhaktapur flooded

The flooded Manohara river has inundated the settlements of landless squatters at Madyapurthimi Municipality-1.

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Genuine landless squatters to get land: Minister Shrestha

Shashi Shrestha has directed the National Land Commission to work in a result-oriented manner to end the problems of genuine landless squatters

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Gandaki collects statistics on landless squatters

Gandaki Province has collected statistics of over 100,000 landless squatters, landless Dalits, and unmanaged settlers.

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Gandaki Province collects statistics on 100 thousand landless squatters

KASKI, July 13: The Gandaki Province has collected the statistics of over 100 thousand landless squatters, landless Dalits and unmanaged settlers combined. The Commission Relating to Solution of Landless People informed at a programme in Pokhara that the data collection on the landless people, squatters and those living in unmanaged settlement was completed in all 85 local levels of 11 districts in the province on time. The government had formed the Commission to resolve the landless problems and ensure land to the squatter dwellers. It has also got the responsibility to manage those living in unmanaged settlements. Commission central member and Gandaki Province representative Yek Bahadur Rana informed that there were 7,904 landless Dalits, 12,658 landless squatters, and 77,069 unmanaged settlers. The Commission also received 7, 296 applications on the incomplete works relating landless dwellers. The applications are under investigation, Rana added. The applications were collected by the related local levels after making agreement with all 85 local levels. If the landless squatters are living in the places which would not be used for public purpose, they would be settled in the same place, according to Rana. However, in case of encroachment to the public land, they would be shifted to other places. The works to provide land and land ownership certificates to the real landless people would begin immediately from the new fiscal year.

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