Nepal has
its long history on land management sector from Vaidic
period. The land is taken as the main property of the
state in Vedas, Manusmriti, Mahabharat and Kautilya's
economics. The fact the state would collect a fixed
amount of revenue depicts that the land administration
was controlled by the state in the past time as well.The
practice of land revenue collection, maintainance of
land records, distribution of collected amount to the
employees and using the rest amount for the state affairs
had begun many years ago. In Lichchhabi rule, the land
administration was regulated by Gaun Panchali. The Malla
rule introduced the system of purchase of land, land
survey and land classification on the basis of productivity.
Ram Shah, the king of Gurkha Kingdom, started land record
maintainance system by dividing the land type into various
units like hale, kodale, mato muri, bijan, mana etc.The
land survey was started in 1930 B.S. The chains were
used to measure both of the lands of terai region and
farms of hilly region whereas occular measurement was
applied for rest of the other parts. The land was categorized
as hale, pate, kute and kodale on the basis of the tools
used there, and the land records were developed on the
basis of such categorization.
Hon' Minister
Secretary
Dr. Keshav Raj Kanel
The Mal Adda was
established in 1953 B.S. The Pota Registration Adda, which
was established in 1978 B.S., carried out the functions like,
approval of written documents (Likhat Parit), Namsari, Dhakhil
Kharij, Lagat Katta, collection of land revenue, allocation
of budget to governmental offices and account keeping. After
this, the governmental offices working on land administration
began to develop structurally.The map based land recording
system was started after the establishment of Cadastral Survey
in Bhaktapur district in 1980 B.S. The Survey Goswara was
established in Kathmandu in 1996 B.S. The Survey Department
and the Department of Land Revenue were established respectively
in 2014 B.S. and 2016 B.S. The district level Land Revenue
Offices were established after the political division of the
Kingdom into 75 districts in 2018 B.S.The significant works
undertaken in land related sector after the dawn of democracy
are given below:Years (B.S.) Activities2008 Drafted Bhumidari
Adhikar Prapti Kanoon and Foumulated the Commission for Land
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2009 Formulated the Commission for Land Reformation
2012 Declared 13 term Plan on Land Reformation
2013 Prepared Land and Land Tenancy Records Act
2014 Prepared Land Related Act
2016 Prepared Birta Unmulan Ain
2019 Prepared Land Survey and Measurement Act
2021 Prepared Land Related Act
2009 Formulated the Commission for Land Reformation