Hetauda, April 1 -- The Bagmati Provincial government has finally secured land for its permanent administrative structures, concluding a six-year bureaucratic struggle. A federal Cabinet meeting held on March 15 approved the use of 31.2 hectares of forest land spreading in ward 16 and 17 of Hetauda Sub-metropolitan City, Makawanpur.

Since the establishment of provincial structures in 2017, Bagmati has seen five chief ministers, yet its ministries continue to operate from cramped public buildings and rented houses. Previous administrations regularly allocated budgets for a permanent complex, but projects remained stalled as it did not get land ownership from the federal government.

According to Ishwar Chandra Marahatta, secretary at the ...