KATHMANDU, AUGUST 15
The Council of Ministers has amended the Land Use Regulations 2022 and opened the plotting of land.
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.
