INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, AUGUST 15The Council of Ministers has amended the Land Use Regulations 2022 and opened the plotting of
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With approval of the amended Land Use Regulations by the Council of
Ministers, land plotting has been opened.Along with this, the way for plotting of non-classified land has also opened.
The
Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Prakash Jwala said, "The Land Use Regulations 2022 has been amended and endorsed by the
Cabinet today to ease work related to land fragmentation, transfer and acquisitions."The amendment of the regulations will allow the
government to open the way for allotment even if there is no classification of land from the local level.Earlier, the regulations prohibited
commercial land plotting and its sale in areas, except in classified areas for residential purposes.However, now, if any land is classified
as commercial, it can be plotted too
It is no longer a problem that there should be at least this much land while dividing it.The regulations have been amended so that there is
separate standard for agriculture and another standard for residential and commercial land in the classified land."The regulation has been
amended to maintain the criteria for land with roads that meet the standards of local roads in commercial and residential areas," informed
an officer from the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives, and Poverty Alleviation.The Land Use regulations states that land can be
classified as agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial, areas of mines, forest, river, lake, wetland public use, cultural and
archaeological and other areas designated by the government.The regulation also states that the government had provided that there would be
no allocation of land without specific classification, without distinguishing between agricultural and non-agricultural land.After this
arrangement, the allocation of land across the country was affected.Due to such provisions, not only the purchase and sale of land was
affected, but also the division, the local level started classifying land in their area through the Land Use Council
So far, 191 local levels have classified land, according Nirman Kumar Karki, spokesperson of Department of Land Management and
Archives.Prime Minister Dahal said during a meeting with the private sector that plotting will open from tomorrow.The Ministry of Land
Management and Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation had stopped the allocation of land
After the government was severely criticised saying that land acquisition was the cause of economic recession, the government amended the
decision to stop the allocation of land.A version of this article appears in the print on August 16, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
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