Jhapa squatters’ long wait for land ownership continues

Entire settlements are without land deeds. The district has more than 50,000 landless squatters.

When 70-year-old Champa Kumari Rajbanshi and her family migrated to the Phulbari area in ward 13 of Mechinagar Municipality in Jhapa in around 1999, they arrived with nothing—no home, no land.