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Improvement on land administration services is a challenge faced by every country like Nepal. Thi... more Improvement on land administration services is a challenge faced by every country like Nepal. This paper aims to evaluate the status of good governance in the land administration system of Nepal. The concept and definition of land administration and good governance and the basic principles, values and significance of good land governance are discussed first. Then, a brief overview of the historical development of land administration system in Nepal and the structure and role of land administration organizations is presented. Finally, the status of good land governance in Nepal is discussed and a conclusion is drawn from the study. Fast registration process, transparent land laws and regulations, provision of public hearing and Citizen Charter and establishment of public account authority are some of the strengths of the land administration system. On the other hand, complex procedure, paper-based system, ineffective reward and punishment system, lack of integrated land policy, political interference, corruption, land administration organizations located far from the rural areas, no guarantee of registered title are its main problems. Thus, the status of land governance can be improved by making the procedures simple, digitizing land records and providing electronic services, improving the reward and punishment system, formulating integrated land policy, reducing the political interference and corruption, providing land administration services from the local level and improving the registration system.

Economic development is one of the common goals of many developing countries like Nepal. The natu... more Economic development is one of the common goals of many developing countries like Nepal. The nature of policy adopted by the government to distribute land to its people and associated property rights affect the level of economic performance. Land administration and associated systems are the mechanisms that translate such policies into practice. This paper aims to investigate how land administration supports the goal of economic development based on case study of property formalization program in the Chulachuli village of Eastern Nepal. A questionnaire, in-depth interviews with landowners and relevant land professionals and field observation techniques were used to investigate perceptions and practice of land formalization. Most of the respondents perceive that their land rights are more secure after formalization and the land administration organizations play crucial role in securing those rights. The property rights are found to be positively correlated with the land value, investment and income when land rights are formally recognized, the use value, collateral value and exchange value of land is increased, landowners are able to access credit from the institutional sector and investment and income are also increased. Thus, after property formalization, landowners are benefitted from using highest form of property rights, reliance from higher interest rate, and increased land price and income. The land administration institutions play crucial role in property formalization, management of land information and registration of transactions. The investment of government in this sector could be justified from the benefits it received from increased revenue and production which supported to fulfil their goal of economic development. Its contribution in attaining the goal of distributive justice is also a matter of study.

Improvement in the land registration system is a major challenge faced by many land administratio... more Improvement in the land registration system is a major challenge faced by many land administration organizations. Although providing cheap, convenient and effective services is the policy of the Government of Nepal, the people are not satisfied from the land administration services. It might have been caused by less emphasis on the user requirements while designing the business process. This study seeks to identify user requirements, design a land registration system based on those requirements and validate it. This is a qualitative type of case study research in which the data are collected from the interview, observation and documents and analyzed using descriptive method. The user requirements identified from the case study are discussed in terms of the established cadastral principles, prior knowledge and comparison of the land registration process of other countries. The basic idea for the discussion is derived from the policy and vision of the United Nations Land Administration Guidelines and Cadastre 2014 and other related literature. Based on the discussion, a business process is designed which is verified using the Tecnomatix software and validated using the Assessment Questions. Some conditions for implementation of the proposed process are also presented.

Conference Presentations by Gandhi Subedi

FIG, 2014