Kathmandu. Over the years, if there has been the most politics in the name of anyone in this country, it is the squatters. Who is Maoist, who is UML, who is Congress! Everyone is making a vote bank for the squatters. However, neither the problems of the squatters were solved, nor was their voice heard in the true sense. On the contrary, the squatters began to rule in the squatters. As a result, the squatters remained squatters in the true sense of the term, and the squatters who grew up doing politics in the name of squatters continued to earn millions. As a result, it has also been seen that the name is squatters, but in their name, property worth crores and crores has been seen. At this time, the debate of squatters is going on in the country. After Balen’s directive to remove the settlements of squatters, the issue of squatters has reached the peak of discussion. However, the fact is that the squatters are really in pain and in the meantime, the orders of the squatters are more dilapidated than the politics of this country.

Now let’s see when and how the government land on the bank of Bagmati River in Thapathali was encroached upon.

On the basis of the facts and evidence we have discovered, From 2047 B. S. The initial settlement in Thapathali seems to have started around 2057 BS. After the decade of 2047, rapid migration from the rural areas started in Kathmandu. Since then, landless and low-income families who had been looking for work had started living temporarily on the banks of the river and on vacant government land. The river bank in Thapathali area, which is now a squatter settlement, was empty. However, the Between 2057 BS and 2064 BS, a small group of landless squatters started living in the area. After 2057 BS, some families started living on the banks of the Bagmati by constructing tin roofs and wooden huts.

Even at that time, there was a lot of greenery and vacant land on the banks of the Bagmati River in Thapathali. There were only a few dozen temporary homes. However, the After 2065 BS, settlements seem to have expanded in the area. After the migration of people from the village to the city, the number of people expanding their settlements on the vacant land on the bank of the river of Thapathali increased. From 2065 B. S. During the period of 2072, the construction of huts and small houses increased rapidly in this area. Houses were also being built in small lanes and lines. Since then, the settlement came to be known as ‘Thapathali Squatters’ Basti. After the massive earthquake of 2072, a large number of families moved to Kathmandu to live temporarily, according to the data. Many of them had started living in tents on the banks of the Bagmati River. It has also been alleged that the same squatter settlement has been used as a vote bank by the political parties in the past.

After Balendra Shah (Balen) was elected mayor of Kathmandu, he started a campaign to remove the structures built by encroaching on government land on the Bagmati River. From 2079 BS to 2080 BS, efforts were made to remove some structures by using dozers. Meanwhile, there was a big clash between the police and the squatters. According to the details prepared by KMC, most of the squatters are from Sindhupalchowk, Ramechhap, Dolakha and Sindhuli. It has also been revealed that some of them own 20 ropanis of land in the village. In the past, the government had tried to manage the squatters in the area. The then Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai In 2069 BS, he spent Rs 120 million to construct a luxurious ‘squatter apartment’ in Nagarjuna. Accordingly, apartments were made in two places. However, a decade and a half later, the apartment is still vacant. The squatters do not want to live there. Because they want government land!

One thing is clear, Ravi-Balen has not done the politics of truth but the politics of nation building. They did not do politics of selfishness to get votes and come to power. If they did, they would continue to do politics in the name of squatters as in the past. The squatters used to use the settlement as a vote bank. For years, they kept the squatters as squatters and kept them as squatters. “We are the ones who understand you,” he said. But Balen didn’t do that. As mayor of Kathmandu, he took the risk of returning the encroached land to the state. Thapathali’s land belongs to the state. Balen, who has wanted to return the state’s property to the state since he was the mayor, is now trying to make full use of the state’s resources.

According to various statistics and details made public, there are not even 10 percent real squatters in the land under the bridge and the surrounding open grounds. Most of them have land in the village. Some have sons in the US, some in the UK and some in Australia. The government is preparing to bring the government land of Thapathali under the government’s control by removing these ‘hukambasis’ and managing the real squatters. However, in the name of squatters, the ‘hukumbasis’ who have land in the ropani and not in the village in the name of squatters have always obstructed the government work and will do so this time too.

This is not the first time that the government has made preparations to evict the landless squatters from the Bagmati River bank in Thapathali. The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has been requesting the government to vacate the land dozens of times since the last three years. Before that, the government had constructed ‘Squatters’ Apartments with an investment of Rs 120 million for the management of squatters. And now there is no point in crying ‘there is no one to speak of the poor man’s jasmine’? On top of that, various political parties, activists and an extremist element are pushing them. They don’t like the city being beautified and the city being clean. They go to such settlements and raise them saying that they will make more garbage, not to leave this land, to fight against the government.

What was it that the government had started doing new and long-term work in providing gas, shelter, cotton, education, health and other facilities to the poor people? The elements that politicize the ugly society, poverty, squatters, garbage on the streets, chaos, carts, noise and incivility have suddenly come together.

No strict border restrictions, no separation of squatters and squatters and settlements of the real squatters, no arrest of middlemen, no dismissal of student organizations and trade unions that have turned schools into undeclared political bases carrying party bags, no expansion of footpaths that have been encroached against the standards, no educational reforms, no change in office hours, no search for looted land and wealth in the name of power and power! And the country needs something like Singapore? When the patient squeezes the pillow, he definitely says hey, but after squeezing it, he breathes a sigh of joy. There is a shout, but the doctor is not disturbed. Yes, the current government should do the same. The contractors of the notorious politics that have been showing the dream of Singapore to the people by doing vote politics for years but have been pushing the country and people into poverty and problems should be eliminated and the country should be built. (Video)

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