Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) Province 1 Office Biratanagar and organizations active in the field of human rights have submitted a memorandum to the Government of Nepal through the District Administration Office Morang on August 16 demanding refinement of the decision of dismissing the Land Related Problem-Solving Commission.
INSEC and 23 civil society organizations have jointly expressed solidarity with the Land Related Problem-Solving Commission through Human Rights Alliance saying they have relevance for the implementation of the guaranteed fundamental right to housing-Article 37 and rights of Dalit-Article 40 of the Constitution of Nepal, 2072.
INSEC active in the sector of Human Rights and Social Justice, Nepal Landless Squatters’ Organization, Nepal Utpidit Jatiya Mukti Samaj Morang and other organizations have demanded to rectify the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers to dismiss the Land Related Problem-Solving Commission on August 3, 2021.
Somraj Thapa, Coordinator of INSEC Province 1 said the organizations want to get the attention of the government on their decision of dismissing the Land Related Problem-Solving Commission. He added that the dismissal of the commission has disoriented the right to housing, Dalit rights and right to social justice.
The Assistant Chief District Officer Sharad Kumar Pokharel received the memorandum submitted by the organizations. He said the issue brought to the notice by the human rights organizations for the implementation of the guaranteed fundamental rights provided by the constitution had a positive note therefore the government would be informed accordingly.
Chairperson of the Morang branch of the Human Rights Alliance, Khilanath Niraula, said that the Government of Nepal has drawn attention to the contemporary issues for rectifying the decision of the Land Related Problem-Solving Commission and guaranteeing the fundamental human rights of the citizens.
Arjun Raj Adhikari, central member of the Human Rights Alliance, said they have drawn the attention of the government of Nepal so that human rights of the citizens can be guaranteed only by the implementation of guaranteed fundamental rights provided by the constitution.
After the dismissal of the Land Related Problem-Solving Commission on August 3, Advocate Mahesh Bhattarai had filed a writ petition on behalf of Devi Prasad Gyawali, chairperson of the commission on August 8 keeping the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba as the opponent. Immediately after which, on August 4, the court has issued a short-term interim order not to dismiss the commission.