Kathmandu, Aug 10: The Member of Parliaments (MPs) have been provided two more days to review the revised draft of the Bill Designed to Manage Land, citing lack of clarity in some of its clauses.
The lawmakers had requested for more time to study certain amended clauses in today’s meeting of the Agriculture, Cooperatives and Natural Sources Committee under the House of Representatives, said Kusum Devi Thapa, Chairperson of the Committee. The Committee would meet again on August 13 to deliberate on this issue, according to her.
In its previous meeting, the Committee had entrusted the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation and the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs with the responsibility of revising the Clause 12 (g) of the Bill.
These Ministries, however, delivered the revised version of the Clause to the Committee on Sunday morning.
Since the amended version of the Clause arrived just ahead of the today’s meeting, the Committee members demanded more time to examine it thoroughly citing lack of clarity.
The meeting thus decided to take forward the Bill after minute review. During meeting on Sunday, Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Balaram Adhikari, called for legislation that ensures land allocation to those displaced from national parks and reserve areas.
He informed that the legislation had a provision to allocate land to those who own a land within the national park and reserve areas but have not been compensated so far.
