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.