Community participation approach for land adjudication : an innovative approach for digital cadastre in Nepal
Paudyal, Dev Raj and Rabin K. Sharma
In Nepal due to secured life and opportunity for employment people are migrating from rural area to urban area. The population of urban area is increasing day by day. The price of land is increasing very high in urban and peri urban area of Nepal. There is importance of one inch of face length of a parcel of land which is near the road or highway. The existing cadastral maps cannot reflect the real situation of parcel boundary on the ground as they are very old (in some place island maps), have of small scale and the parcel boundary on map and field is different. Land owner are not satisfied with these cadastral documents and asking for reliable cadastral information. There is worthless to make the digital database with these erroneous documents. Hence Cadastral Survey Branch of Survey Department has started Numerical Cadastral Mapping (NCM) method for data acquisition in urban areas for the creation of digital cadastral database. During NCM, it was found that the boundary of parcel on land and map is different in most of the places. People are occupying and constructing houses without caring much on these cadastral documents. Due to the norms and value of the society people are satisfying with their occupying. In re-cadastral mapping works, if surveyor follows the existing cadastral maps it will take lots of time to adjudicate a single parcel boundary on the ground. Hence for the land adjudication, an innovative approach has followed for numerical cadastral mapping in Nepal.
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