KANCHANPUR, Nov 16: Itawariya Rana of Shuklaphanta Municipality-12 Dekhtabhuli Aglipatti is very happy after a two-decade-old land share dispute was settled within two days. The judicial committee of the municipality settled the dispute within two days of receiving his complaint.
About thirty years ago, two bighas of registered land and three bighas of unregistered land where the Rana family was living were eroded by the Doda River.
"After two decades of deforestation, the river changed its course and stopped flowing through the land, three brothers started farming on the land that belonged to four brothers," Rana said, "When I tried to ask for a share, they started abusing and beating me. Then I requested the judicial committee of the municipality for my share of land.”
“Both the parties were brought together before the judicial committee. Forgetting the bitterness of the past, the three brothers - Bandha, Sandha, and Sukram - agreed to give me the share,” Itawariya said.
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"For years, we did not talk to each other because of the land," he said, "Relationships with our brothers have been established at the initiative of the judicial committee, we were deprived of our share, we got that too."
"Rana family’s land dispute has been going on for years," he said, “"We brought together the parties and the opposition and discussed and resolved the dispute amicably within two days of receiving the complaint."
He said that the land will be divided in the presence of ward President, Coordinator of the Judicial Committee and surveyor.
According to Section 47 of the Local Government Operation Act 2074, since it is within the jurisdiction of the judicial committee, both parties should stay together and not abuse each other, and an agreement was reached after bringing both parties to the judicial committee for discussion.
According to Kalpana Pant, coordinator and deputy head of the Municipal Judicial Committee, 24 disputes have been settled in the current year by the judicial committee like Rana's regarding wage labor, money transactions, land, portion, roads, wells, water supply.
Two dispute complaints are pending. Six new disputes have been registered. According to him, two disputes have arisen from last year. Deputy Mayor Pant says that all the disputes that have come to the judicial committee have been brought together and a compromise has been made with a sense of win-win.
