Kathmandu. Acting Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Sunita Dangol, has directed the government to start work to protect the public land that has been vacated by removing the squatters. Inspecting the vacated land on the banks of the Bagmati River at Thapathali on Saturday, he directed Chief Administrative Officer Saroj Guragain to coordinate with the stakeholders including the High Powered Bagmati Civilization Integrated Development Committee and other concerned offices to install fencing for the security and protection of the places to be vacated now and after and to start the work of installing fencing from the Public Works Department.
On Sunday, acting chief Dangol inspected the physical condition of Nagarjun’s colony at Ichangu. There is a plan to house the actual landless people of the unorganized settlements in these buildings. The settlements in the Thapathali area of the Bagmati river section have been evacuated on April 25 while vacating the settlements kept by building unauthorized structures on public and government land on the banks of the river. For this, the people living in the unauthorized settlements within the metropolis were informed by miking from Thursday to vacate themselves.
Following the notice issued in this way, some families vacated their houses and tents on Friday. In this way, the process of vacating their houses continued till Saturday morning. Seeing this situation, the local administration postponed the demolition program from 6 am and gave an opportunity to vacate on its own. The removal of the structures started from around 8 am. Ward No. 11 According to Hiralal Tandukar, chairman of ward no. 11 and coordinator of the building management committee of the metropolis, there were 332 houses in the ward. Out of these, 136 houses on the Thapathali side have been demolished.
The Metropolitan Police Force had mobilized vehicles and manpower to take out the belongings from the house and transport the goods to the place where they were told. This is the back part of the maternity home. Banshighat is behind the Vishwa Niketan School. There are 196 huts here.
In the unsystematic settlement from Sinamangal to Baneshwor Campus on the Bagmati River section, Ward No. 162 households in Ward No. 9 and Ward No. 31 had 476 houses in Dirghashanti Tole (Jagritinagar). Of these, on April 26, Ward No. 9 was vacated. Ward No. 31 was demolished by 9 p. m. on this day and only a part of the work was completed. On Sunday morning, Manpower and resources were concentrated in Manohara area.
According to Bishnu Prasad Joshi, chief of the Metropolitan Police Force, the demolition of the unsystematic settlement in Manohara area started from 1:00 pm by distributing resources. The houses and huts of 31 Jagriti Nagar were demolished.
Work is underway on both sides of the Manohara River section along with Jagritinagar towards Kathmandu and Madhyapur Thimi.
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