Kathmandu, October 6, 2026 — Prime Minister Balendra Shah has said the Rastriya Swatantra Party-led government has made resolving the country’s long-standing landless settlers’ problem within 1,000 days a key performance indicator.
In a social media post on Monday, Shah said the issue had remained unresolved for seven decades despite repeated political commitments and changes in Nepal’s political system and governments. He recalled that the Nepali Congress had pledged in its 1959 election manifesto to prioritize landless farmers through land reform and redistribution of excess land.
Shah said successive governments had formed commissions, committees and other mechanisms to address the problem but had failed to produce the expected results. According to his account, more than Rs 2 billion in state funds was spent on such structures since 2020 without resolving the issue.
The current government, he said, has adopted an approach based on expertise, transparent procedures, coordination with local governments and clearly defined responsibilities rather than political appointments and additional administrative layers.
Following the establishment of the Land Problem Resolution Committee, 1,311,197 applications related to land problems have been entered into an integrated system. The applications are undergoing review and verification, after which they will be prioritized for further action. The committee’s official website also lists nationwide application data and ongoing procedures concerning landless Dalits, landless squatters and unorganized settlers.
