- Type
- Act
- Year
- २०४५ BS
- Status
- In force
- Category
- खण्ड ११: योजना, विकास तथा निर्माण · Volume 11: Planning, Development and Construction
- Official text
- Official page Official text (PDF)
- English translation
- Official English translation archived copy: the original page is no longer online
Includes amendments up to: 2066 BS. Translations may not include later amendments. The Nepali text is the authoritative law.
Analysis drawn from official reports, court rulings and published research, each cited. Figures are being double-checked against the source documents; corrections are welcome.
What does it do?
- The Act lets town development committees prepare town plans — for integrated physical development, renewal and expansion of existing towns and building new ones, and setting land-use zones with development standards and services such as roads, electricity, drainage and open space — which must be approved by the ministry and published. Where no town plan is approved, a local government may prepare a local plan with landowners and tenants.यो ऐनले नगर विकास समितिलाई नगरको एकीकृत भौतिक विकास, भइरहेका नगरको पुनर्निर्माण र विस्तार तथा नयाँ नगर निर्माण, र भू–उपयोग क्षेत्र तोकी विकासका मापदण्ड र सडक, बिजुली, ढल, खुला क्षेत्र जस्ता सेवा उपलब्ध गराउन नगर योजना बनाउने अधिकार दिन्छ; त्यस्तो योजना मन्त्रालयबाट स्वीकृत भई प्रकाशित हुनुपर्छ। नगर योजना स्वीकृत नभएका क्षेत्रमा स्थानीय तहले जग्गाधनी र मोहीलाई समावेश गरी स्थानीय योजना बनाउन सक्छ। Nepal Law Commission (lawcommission.gov.np), consolidated text Sections 3–3क, PDF pp. 3–4
- The Government of Nepal may form a town development committee in each local government, chaired by the head of that local government and including district and land officials; the committee is a corporate body. Within a town plan area, it can regulate or ban — without its prior approval — land use, new buildings or extensions, settlements, markets and industries, activities harmful to scenic or public health, and roads and services; it can stop unapproved works and order unauthorised construction demolished, subject to appeal.नेपाल सरकारले हरेक स्थानीय तहमा सम्बन्धित स्थानीय तहको प्रमुख वा अध्यक्षको अध्यक्षतामा जिल्ला र भूमि सम्बन्धी अधिकारीसमेत रहने नगर विकास समिति गठन गर्न सक्छ; समिति सङ्गठित संस्था हो। नगर योजना क्षेत्रभित्र समितिको पूर्वस्वीकृतिबिना जग्गाको प्रयोग, नयाँ भवन वा विस्तार, बस्ती, बजार र उद्योग, सौन्दर्य वा जनस्वास्थ्यमा असर पार्ने काम, र बाटो तथा सेवासुविधाको प्रयोग नियमित, नियन्त्रण वा निषेध गर्न सक्छ; स्वीकृतिविपरीतका काम रोक्न र अनधिकृत निर्माण भत्काउन आदेश दिन सक्छ, जसउपर पुनरावेदन लाग्छ। Nepal Law Commission (lawcommission.gov.np), consolidated text Sections 4–5, PDF pp. 4–5; Sections 9–10, PDF pp. 7–8
- Committees divide plan areas into land-use zones, set conditions for development, protect heritage and the environment, and may run land development programmes — such as land pooling with the participation of at least 75% of local landowners and tenants — to provide serviced housing plots for people of different incomes. They may raise loans and grants with prior government approval and have their own fund.समितिले योजना क्षेत्रलाई भू–उपयोग क्षेत्रमा विभाजन गर्छ, भौतिक विकासका शर्त र मापदण्ड तोक्छ, सम्पदा र वातावरणको संरक्षण गर्छ, र विभिन्न आय वर्गलाई सेवासुविधासहितका आवास घडेरी उपलब्ध गराउन कम्तीमा पचहत्तर प्रतिशत स्थानीय जग्गाधनी र मोहीको सहभागितामा जग्गा एकीकरण जस्ता जग्गा विकास कार्यक्रम चलाउन सक्छ। सरकारको पूर्वस्वीकृतिमा ऋण र अनुदान जुटाउन सक्छ र यसको आफ्नै कोष हुन्छ। Nepal Law Commission (lawcommission.gov.np), consolidated text Sections 11–14, PDF pp. 9–16
Gaps, loopholes and improvement ideas
Ideas to fix it
- Immediately make Urban Development Regulations under the powers in this Act to give legal recognition to land pooling and building ('house') pooling procedures, and allow the private sector to use these methods for small towns with the approval of a designated body — or include these provisions in the Urban Development Bill being drafted.जग्गा एकीकरण र भवन एकीकरण (हाउस पुलिङ) सम्बन्धी कार्यविधिलाई कानूनी मान्यता दिन यस ऐनले दिएको अधिकार प्रयोग गरी नगर विकास नियमावली तत्काल लागू गर्ने, र तोकिएको निकायको स्वीकृतिमा निश्चित आकारसम्मका साना शहर निजी क्षेत्रले पनि यस विधिबाट बनाउन सक्ने व्यवस्था गर्ने — वा मस्यौदा भइरहेको शहरी विकास विधेयकमै यी व्यवस्था समावेश गर्ने। Proposed by: High-Level Economic Reform Suggestion Commission (2081) High-Level Economic Reform Commission (उच्चस्तरीय आर्थिक सुधार सुझाव आयोग), submitted to the Ministry of Finance
Where does it conflict with other laws?
No conflict with another law is documented in the sources we have reviewed so far.