Government to set high-level team to resolve problems of ex-kamaiyas

January 10, 2006
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Minister for Land Reforms and Management Narayan Singh Pun (File Photo)

Minister for Land Reforms and Management Narayan Singh Pun (File Photo)
Minister for Land Reforms and Management Narayan Singh Pun said a high-level commission will be constituted with the representation of the former Kamaiyas and landless people in order to resolve the problems of the landless as well as the landless Kamaiyas.

At an interaction programme on ‘Freed Kamaiya Rehabilitation’ organised by the Land Reforms Office, Dang on Monday, Minister Pun said the present government is working towards resolving the landless problem and management of the former Kamaiyas.

Speaking at the same programme, speakers including Central Chairman of Freed Kamaiyas Society, Pashupati Chaudhary and freed Kamaiya activist Laxmi Chaudhary, asked the government to take prompt actions for the rehabilitation of freed Kamaiyas and provide identity card to freed Kamaiyas.

Similarly speaking in Nepalgunj on Monday, Minister Pun said that the government has brought the concept of Land Bank for the proper management and protection of the freed Kamaiyas and the land-less peasants.

He informed that a loan of Rs 150,000 with the interest rate of three percent per annum would be provided to one freed-Kamaiya family from the Land Bank for resolving the problems of the freed Kamaiyas.

Minister Pun said that the freed Kamaiyas taking loan from the Land Bank could purchase land at their free will and they need not pay the interest on the loan for two years.

Speaking at the programme, Programme Officer of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Project Office, Nepalgunj, Govinda Dahal said that ILO was working together with the government for the protection of the rights and interests of the freed Kamaiyas.