Kathmandu, 10 May: The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation has begun investigation on the involvement of government employees in the encroachment upon public lands. The Ministry took the initiative in the wake of the media reports relating to the Baluwatar land scam.
The Ministry banned the transaction of some 485 kittas of land in Baluwatar and the vicinity and began probe on the involvement of land mafia and government employees on illegal dealing of the public lands. The issues as surveying and registration of public lands under personal names, using land as bribe to evade legal obligations are under investigation at the Ministry.
Reproduced from People’s News Monitoring Service
