Kathmandu. The District Land Problem Resolution Committee, Udayapur, has distributed land ownership certificates to 116 landless families. The landless squatters are 39 landless Dalits, 26 landless squatters of Rautamai Rural Municipality, 4 landless Dalits, 7 landless squatters in Katari Municipality and 8 landless Dalit and 32 landless squatter families of Belka Municipality.

Locals who have not been able to own land in their name for a long time have become legal landowners after getting land ownership certificates. Similarly, 3 landless Dalit and 3 landless squatter families of Chhireshwarnath Municipality Ward No. 5 of Dhanusha have received land ownership certificates.

The government has given high priority to the solution of the problems of landless Dalits, landless squatters and unorganized settlers. The distribution of land ownership certificates has been taken forward more effectively as per the government’s goal of solving the problems of landless Dalits, landless squatters and unorganized settlers in the long term and making them legal landowners.