Locals Protest 75 Days Against Tilganga Eviction

Kathmandu. Locals have been staging a sit-in protest in front of the Pashupati Area Development Fund for 75 days against the removal of the Tilganga settlement. They complain that the government has displaced them in an unjust manner. The government had also removed settlements in the Tilganga area (Block B-13) on May 18 and 19 while clearing settlements along the banks of the Bagmati River.

Locals have complained that they have been displaced by being categorized as landless squatters without implementing the agreement reached during the implementation of the Pashupati Area Development Fund's master plan. They state that they are not landless squatters or land encroachers, but are locals with land ownership deeds. They accuse the Pashupati Development Fund of demolishing their settlement without implementing the prior agreement.