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Update (19 Sept. 2000)
Government
Decisions to Rehabilitate Freed Kamaiyas
The
freed Kamaiyas identification and rehabilitation central coordination and
monitoring committee that met here on Sept. 18 under the chairmanship of
the committee chairman and deputy prime minister Ramchandra Poudel
approved of the recommendations included in the reports prepared after the
inspection visits to Dang, Banke, Bardiya, Kailali and Kanchanpur, the
districts where the freed kamaiyas are concentrated in.
The
reports were presented at the meeting by Member-Secretary of the committee
Yoddha Shaha.
The
meeting decided to recommend to His Majesty's Government to extend the
term of the central and district level coordination and monitoring
committees formed to work on the identification and rehabilitation of
freed Kamaiyas till April 13, 2001 and rename the district level committee
as freed Kamaiyas identification and rehabilitation district committee.
The terms of the existing central and districts committees expire on Sept.
25.
According
to a the National News Agency (RSS) report, the meeting also decided to
implement an emergency food assistance programme for the freed Kamaiyas in
Kailali and Kanchanpur, and assign a joint team of one government officer
and one accountant to distribute the relief materials (foodstuff) in a
planned and transparent manner under the direct observation of the
district rehabilitation committee.
As
decided at the meeting, the committee will recommend to the government to
include representatives of Nepal Red Cross Society, ingos, and ngo
Federation in the central and district level committees, immediately start
distributing identification cards to the homeless freed Kamaiyas and
establish a regional office with an gazetted first class officer as
project chief in Nepalgunj to coordinate and implement the Kamaiya skill
development and rehabilitation programme in a planned manner.
It
also decided to instruct the district committee to identify and do the
mapping of the illegally usurped government/public land and bring such
land into government control with the help of the local administration,
and activate the landless settlers problems resolution commission so as to
distribute such land to the homeless freed Kamaiyas.
The
meeting also decided to instruct the Kailali district development
committee to do the mapping of the government land in Geta vdc Kailali and
Dhangadhi municipality ward no. 11 without any delay and distribute such
land to the homeless freed Kamaiyas.
The
meeting was attended by minister for land reforms and management Siddha
Raj Ojha and minister of state Gopal Rai, minister of state for women,
children and social welfare Mrs Kamala Pant, member of national planning
commission Harishankar Tripathi, the secretaries at the ministry of land
reforms and management and the ministry of physical planning works, and
other seniors officers of other ministries.
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