Agenda
NLHDA favours construction of Outer Ring Road in Kathmandu Valley.
It is high time that the term REALTOR, NLHDA believes, come into force with legality obtained if the Nepalese land and housing development sector looks forward to a positive growth. We propose the government to issue "licence to operate" to the realtors so that only the realtors those who are licenced become able to carry out the trade. We understand it should not only regulate the land and housing sector substantially but also bring realtors within the bracket of taxation.
We know that sale and purchase of a home or land is one of the most significant events that any person will experience in their lifetime. It is more than a simple purchase, for it includes the hopes, dreams, aspirations, and economic destiny of those involved. We therefore look forward to bringing Realtors under Code of Ethics that will help to mitigate unfair practices existing in the current market.
NLHDA is lobbying with the government for Licensing of Realtors.
It is high time that the term REALTOR, NLHDA believes, come into force with legality obtained if the Nepalese land and housing development sector looks forward to a positive growth. We propose the government to issue "licence to operate" to the realtors so that only the realtors those who are licenced become able to carry out the trade. We understand it should not only regulate the land and housing sector substantially but also bring realtors within the bracket of taxation.
We know that sale and purchase of a home or land is one of the most significant events that any person will experience in their lifetime. It is more than a simple purchase, for it includes the hopes, dreams, aspirations, and economic destiny of those involved. We therefore look forward to bringing Realtors under Code of Ethics that will help to mitigate unfair practices existing in the current market.
NLHDA understands that regulated Planned Housing is absolutely necessary for beter city.
Construction in Nepal is growing at a tremendous speed. In fact we see a trend that most of the remittances that enter into Nepal is being used for construction of these houses. Unfortunately majority of the construction is carried out in a haphazard way and in an unplanned area. If this trend continues in no time our city is certainly to be registered as one of the ugliest built cities in the world.
As a matter of fact, this trend has to be stopped. Government including the private sector must work on promotion of planned housing. More strictly, building of houses should be regulated keeping in mind the growing demand of urban construction and therefore haphazard growth of the city landscape if issue being left unaddressed.
Our proposal to all of the authorities is to take us in sybiosis in planning of the cityscape and this vertical growth.
NLHDA strongly belives that Land Pooling can be a healthy solution to the congested infrastructure of urban construction.
NLHDA, in symbiosis with the government, conceives of several of land pooling projects in such areas where more development can be ensured through the pooling project. In such doing, we believe, we should not only become able to plan a particular area right from the beginning and thus can ensure link roads to the roads and from a sewerage to a green area. All of this can only be achieved if we are allowed to acquire a large piece of land and develop it as a perfect residential colony or a business zone.
Due to the haphazard development that usually otherwise takes place in the Kathmandu valley is making it uglier by the day. It is a well-known fact that the construction takes place without taking any basic amenities into consideration. More dangerously people also do not seem to care for any facility or the locality's long-term development interest and just keep building. Also adding to the woe is the people who already live in a locality also do not act on making it better.
All of these problems can be solved with only one solution: and it is through land pooling by private players like us. Therefore we request the government should take action on this behalf and bring forth the Land Pooling Act. If the Act is introduced with our consultation, we of course shall adhere to the provisions then declared.
NLHDA believes Guided line Development should be made transparent, regulated, or with drawn to save everybody from many ills. .
NLHDA recognizes that there is more harm through GLD than any intended good. To put it in simple terms, GLD or the so-called do-gooder policy adopted by Nagar Bikas Samiti that envisions 4, 6, and 8 m or wide river corridor road is perfect to the papers stored at Nagar Bikas’ office and is good to the ears if said. Actually danger lies right there that it is virtually unknown to public and only after a customer has bought a land, paid registration taxes, thought on building a house there, drawn a house map, and gone to the Municipal Offices for ill-fated Naksa Pass, he now knows that GLD overlaps his land and now he has to sacrifice his land in the name of GLD.
It does not end there. Of course the person who is about to lose his land and never be able to Naksa Pass, a permission needed to build a house, will now start thinking on as extreme alternative as bribing the officials. Or, in reverse, one can easily assume that those officials don’t want this cheese for mouse to go away. After all, keeping the tradition alive is one of their duties.
Many landowners that way have lost their properties; many ill-minded realtors have sold unsound properties; many officials have added extra strength onto their pockets—all of these due to opaque GLD regulation.
Our recommendation therefore to the government is to decide something immediately. However, it should also be noted that in many areas GLD is impossible to implement now. It should be thoroughly studied and GLD made transparent. It’s in the benefit of the realtor sector as well as public at large. Through transparency in policy will come positive contribution to nation building. It should not be a tool to trap innocent people and made profits from.
