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Social Audit and 2nd General Assembly of CSRC

After 15 years of struggle for land rights CSRC organized its social audit and 2nd General Assembly on the 14th of August to review its programs implemented and strategy undertaken. The main objective of the program was to incorporate the feedback from the people about the organizations work approach to strengthen the land rights campaign in future. More than 80 participants ranging from land deprived people from the community to international organization participated in the program. Executive Director of CSRC, Mr. Jagat Basnet presented the organization's major achievements, challenges faced and its future strategy based on its learning. Since 1994 to December 2007, 16,371 household established rights on 3739 hectare of land. The land rights movement has expanded into 33 districts and raised 1455 activists. The future strategy of CSRC will focus on four major objectives:

1. Capacity building, and strengthening the peoples' organization and its campaign

2. Poor centred policy and good governance in land administration

3. Interrelating the land, agriculture issues with globalization

4. Institutionalization of land rights movement and its learning

Finance officer, Ms Geeta Pandit presented the financial report of the organization focusing on the fiscal year 2007 according to which the organization had an income of Rs. 9,141,071.93/ and the expenditure is Rs. 710,149.76/ and the remaining balance is in the form of cash, bank balance and immovable properties. The CA members, secretary of Ministry of Land Reform and Management, Member Secretary of Social Welfare Council Director of Action Aid, SDC representative, partner organization, Professor Kailash Nath Pyakureyal, activists from the field, and various other people from the open forum appreciated the conduct of CSRC and suggested for the future steps to be considered.

The general assembly in afternoon session discussed and passed the agendas of the organization and reforms in its constitution. The assembly also formed a new board member for coming three years period in which there was few changes in the previous board itself:

New Board Member
Dr. Roshan Chitrakar – President
Ms. Sasikala Dahal – Vice President
Ms. Renuka Poudel – Member Secretary
Mr. Bhagiram Chaudahry – Treasurer
Mr. Ganesh Ram – Member
Mr. Man Bahadur Chettri – Member
Ms. Pabitra Das – Member
 

Mass gathering in Banke

A massive gathering was jointly organized by the people's forum and other partner organization on 22nd of August 2008 in Banke with the participation of around 2000-3000 people. The objective of the gathering was to pressurize the government..READ MORE to address problems on the issues of land rights and introduce new and scientific policies related to land in the new constitution of the state to be formed soon. Representatives of major political parties i.e. Purna Subedi of CPN-Maoists, Mohammadi Siddiki of Nepali Congress, Dal Bahadur Sunar of CPN-UML, Ganesh Khanal of Janamorcha and Constitutional Assembly members had participated in the program. Local media as well as the national media like the BBC, Kantipur, Channel Nepal and Image Channel too were present at the program. Land deprived people, tenants, peasants and rights deprived had stressed on the cancellation of the age old land act prevailing since 1964 A.D. and formation of a new revolutionary and scientific land Act.

People's Forums are having different debate and discussion about the existing land related issues specific to their district context. Speculating the massive eviction of land tillers in the district, an interaction program with almost all major political parties was organized by the DLRF, Banke in August 1, with more than 60 participants. Madhesi Peoples Rights Forum, Nepal Communist -Maoists, Nepal Communist-UML, Nepali Congress, Terai-Madhesh Democratic, Janamorcha, Nepal Communist-ML, and various peasants associations participated the program along with the land victims. The program was very lively in the sense that all the victims could share their pains and sufferings which were addressed by the political leaders in their speech and a common platform was reached about the land reform where the tillers are the owners of the land. The program was also addressed by the ED Jagat Basnet, CSRC in which he asked the leaders to have written commitment in the issues what they speak and asked for support in action in favour of victims rather than in the verbal forums. The leaders committed to implement what have been decided and formed a common channel in order to stop the eviction of the tillers and to establish the rights of those who have been already evicted.