Call to resolve landless squatters problem

           

            Rajbiraj, Dec 9: Stakeholders at a programme here have strongly voiced that the trend of some unscrupulous people posing as landless to grab land should be stamped out and the genuine landless should be provided with land for livelihood.

           

            At the interaction titled 'Landlessness: the Problem of Landless Squatters and Our Role' organisd by the District Land Rights Forum, Saptari here on Monday, most speakers underlined the need for identifying the genuine landless and providing them with livelihood support for addressing this perennial problem.

           

            Member of the Landless Squatters Problem Resolution Commission, Saptari chapter, Shiva Kumar Paswan, said that although the successive governments have been constituting commissions for resolving the landless squatters problem, the problem remains as it is as the commissions are not provided with full authority and autonomy.

           

            CPN (UML) local leader Govinda Neupane stressed on the need of implementing a 'scientific' land reform policy for resolving the landless squatter problem. Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) Saptari chapter president  Prakash Khatiwada called for an immediate solution of the problem.

           

            Chairperson of the Land Rights Forum Saptari , Neelam Sada presided over the programme in which representatives from the landless squatters community and organisations working for the rights of the landless stressed the need for the State to devise and implement effective land reform policy. RSS