काठमाडौं: भूमि व्यवस्थापन तथा अभिलेख विभागले सरकारको स्वीकृतिमा हदबन्दीभन्दा बढी जग्गा राखेका कम्पनी, उद्योग, आयोजना, शैक्षिक संस्था तथा अन्य संघ–संस्थाको जग्गा प्रयोगको अवस्था अनुगमन गर्न ४० जिल्लाका भूमि प्रशासन कार्यालयलाई निर्देशन दिएको छ।
विभागले स्थलगत निरीक्षण गरी स्वीकृत प्रयोजनअनुसार जग्गा उपयोग भएको छ वा छैन भन्ने यथार्थ विवरण संकलन गरेर प्रमाणसहित प्रतिवेदन पेश गर्न निर्देशन दिएको जनाएको छ। यसअघि पटक–पटक प्रतिवेदन माग्दा अधिकांश कार्यालयबाट समयमै विवरण नआएपछि यसपटक अनुगमनलाई कडाइका साथ अघि बढाइएको हो।
भूमिसम्बन्धी ऐनअनुसार हदबन्दीभन्दा बढी जग्गा राख्न अनुमति पाएका संस्थाको नियमित अनुगमन गर्ने जिम्मेवारी सम्बन्धित निकायको रहेको छ। विभागले यस अभियानबाट सरकारी स्वीकृतिको दुरुपयोग भएको छ वा छैन तथा जग्गा स्वीकृत उद्देश्यबाहेक अन्य प्रयोजनमा प्रयोग भएको छ वा छैन भन्ने विषय पनि मूल्यांकन गरिने जनाएको छ।
विभागका अनुसार कानुनी व्यवस्थाको प्रभावकारी कार्यान्वयन, सरकारी स्वीकृतिमा प्राप्त जग्गाको पारदर्शी उपयोग सुनिश्चित गर्न तथा अनुगमन प्रणालीलाई थप प्रभावकारी बनाउन देशव्यापी निरीक्षणलाई तीव्र बनाइएको हो।
Kathmandu: Nepal's Department of Land Management and Archives has directed land administration offices in 40 districts to conduct nationwide inspections of companies, industries, educational institutions, projects and other organisations that have received government approval to own land beyond the legal ceiling.
The department has instructed local offices to carry out field inspections and submit detailed reports on whether the land is being used for the purposes specified when government approval was granted. The move follows repeated delays in receiving monitoring reports from district offices despite several earlier requests.
According to the department, the inspection aims to verify whether organisations that were permitted to acquire land exceeding the statutory ownership limit are complying with the conditions attached to that approval. Officials will also examine whether the land has been diverted to purposes other than those originally authorised.
Under Nepal's land laws, monitoring committees are required to inspect such land holdings every year, in coordination with local governments, and submit reports to the department within two months of the end of each fiscal year. However, the department said many districts have failed to comply with this reporting requirement in recent years.
The latest directive requires land administration offices to complete on-site inspections without delay, document the actual use of the land and submit evidence-backed reports. The findings are expected to help determine whether any organisations have misused government approval or violated the conditions under which they were allowed to hold land beyond the legal ownership ceiling.
The department said the nationwide monitoring campaign is intended to strengthen enforcement of Nepal's land ceiling regulations, improve transparency in the use of government-approved land holdings and ensure greater accountability among institutions granted exemptions under the law.
