Kathmandu. Prime Minister Balendra Shah (Balen) has said that he will separate the encroachers and the squatters. Posting on social media (Facebook) about the eviction of the squatter settlement of Thapathali, Shah said that he will separate the encroachers and the real squatters.

“Apart from the river banks of Kathmandu, there are thousands of families who are really suffering. And there are millions of squatters across the country. The problem here and there are completely different. “We are in the government. We will separate the encroachers and the squatters. We will complete the process and distribute the land to the real squatters across the country as soon as possible. This government will provide a permanent solution to this age-old problem. ’

Sharing a photo of floods entering the squatters’ settlements during the rainy season, Shah said that he has been writing and speaking repeatedly to solve the problem.

Prime Minister Shah has said that the government will not play politics of rights and votes by playing with the lives of the squatters living on the banks of the river.

“Will we continue to play with their lives and continue to play with the politics of rights and votes in the same situation?” he wrote, “Is it appropriate to manage them in the right place or to hang them in the same way in the years to come? Is it the right that they have as citizens to live in the same unorganized and inundation-prone place or to go to a safer place? Certainly, risk-free management is their right.” ’

Shah also mentioned that due to such settlements located on the banks of rivers and streams, the construction of the drainage system has been obstructed, which has resulted in the garbage in the valley and the rivers and streams are stinking. Prime Minister Shah said that this relocation will ease the drainage system of Kathmandu and that due to these various reasons, people living in vulnerable conditions on the banks of rivers of Kathmandu including Thapathali, Gairigaun and Manohara are being relocated safely without using force.

Stating that he had not forgotten the promises he made in Jhapa where he was a candidate, the commitments made in the party’s manifesto, the ‘100 things the government must do’ and clause 92 to stop encroachment and grabbing of government land, he said that they were making internal preparations to fulfill those promises.