Acquisition of land between dry port-integrated security check post

A team of 5 people including dry port customs officer Dhrub Prasad Koiri and 4 technicians from the Intensive Urban Development Office Birganj has completed this work.

'The assessment of 183 households has been completed,' he said, 'after collecting the cost, the committee will present its report at the next meeting of the compensation committee.' .

Apart from this, Mainali says that separate teams have been deployed to assess the local ponds, crops and trees and all three will complete their work soon. So far, the local landowners have received compensation amounting to around 4.80 billion rupees. Most of them have already received the compensation for their fields, except for some landowners who have legal issues and technical complications.

The federal government started the process of land acquisition of 920 plots of 62 bigha between the Sirsia dry port and the Integrated Security Checkpoint 7 years ago . The decision of Nepal Government on 17th December 2073 has started the land acquisition process of locals.

According to government standards, the compensation amount is the highest 67 lakh 70 thousand rupees per parcel and the lowest is 24 lakh 60 thousand rupees per parcel . Sirsia Dry Port which has been in operation for nearly 2 decades and Khalwatola village and a local's farm are located between the integrated security checkpoint.

This human settlement between these two large structures and their fields will be completely taken over and the human settlements will be removed and both structures will be connected to each other.