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Nijgadh squatters demand relocation before international airport construction

File: A design prepared for Nijgadh airport

Kathmandu, December 11

A parliamentary committee  on Monday consulted local stakeholders of Nijgadh and surrounding areas in Bara district in view of constructing an international airport there.

The National Concern and Coordination Committee of the Federal Parliament had moblised the team for an onsite study.

During the visit, stakeholders raised concerns over the residence of around 1,500 households of landless squatters in the area, according to the Committee’s secretary Sudarshan Kuinkel.

Kuinkel informs that the squatters demanded that they be relocated before the construction of the airport. Local people’s representatives also supported the demand.

Meanwhile, the team found that chopping down the trees would not be any big issue in the construction process, according to the official.

“There is not any problem to move forward the construction works,” Kuinkel says, “A formal directive will be issued after the team comes back to Kathmandu and the Committee holds its meeting.”

The team is returning to Kathmandu today.

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