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Bill on land reform enters secretariat BY A STAFF REPORTER Kathmandu, Aug. 31: The government registered the much-talked about Bill on Land (Fifth Amendment)-2058 B.S. at the Parliament Secretariat this afternoon to give a shape to the Prime Minister’s recent announcement on the revolutionary land reform. The Bill has contained the same provisions of ceiling for landholding as decided by the Nepali Congress Central Working Committee meeting on Thursday. According to the Bill, one family can hold 11 bighas (6.9 hectares) in the Terai, 30 ropanis (1.1 hectares) in the Kathmandu Valley and 75 ropanis (3.4 hectares) in the hills. They include one bigha in the Terai and five ropanis each in the Kathmandu Valley and in hills for homestead. Meanwhile, the meeting of the House of the Representatives was again disrupted today over the government’s decision to put ceiling on the landholdings as a preliminary step to the land reform package. The House had started almost four hours late than the scheduled time. The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and Nepal Sadbhawana Party (NSP) obstructed today’s meeting demanding the ceiling on the property. The agitated MPs of those parties moved to the well chanting slogans against the nouveau riche and the government’s decision to freeze the sale of land. When the parliamentary session again failed to proceed with the disturbance Speaker Taranath Ranabhat announced the adjournment of the meeting until 1 PM Sunday. In today’s meeting, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was expected to make an important speech to justify the proposed land reform programme in the House of Representatives. But the address could not take place when even several hours long meeting with the RPP and NSP failed to persuade them for running the session. The two parties stuck to their demand of putting a ceiling to the property. They also threatened to that they would also obstruct the Prime Minister’s address if the House were run forcefully. NSP MP Hridayash Tripathi said that the Prime Minister Deuba has invited them for talks at the PM’s residence in Baluwatar tomorrow morning. Other Stories |
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