Kathmandu, June 16 -- In a historic move the government has officially decided to implement a high-level commission report on public land encroachment in Kathmandu 31 years after it was first submitted.

On Monday, the Ministry of Land Management, Co-operatives, Federal Affairs and General Administration initiated the process of freezing all government and public land identified as encroached in the Rawal Commission report, preventing any transfer of ownership.

According to ministry spokesperson Ganesh Prasad Bhatta, the ministry has formally written to the Department of Land Management and Archives and the Department of Survey to begin the implementation process of the report prepared in 1995 by the High-Level Commission on Investigatio...