KATHMANDU, Nov 3: Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ishwar Pokharel said on Saturday that the government will take back public lands that have been encroached upon over the decades through various means. Speaking after the inaugurating a public park at Dhumbarai in the capital, he said the government was scouring public lands across the country and it would now reassert control over such land.

KATHMANDU, May 23: The government has formed a high-level committee under the chairmanship of Mohan Raman Bhattarai to probe the government, public and guthi lands.

KATHMANDU, May 9: The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation has begun investigation on the involvement of government employees in the encroachment upon public lands. The Ministry took the initiative in the wake of the media reports relating to the Baluwatar land scam.