High-yielding rice fields being urbanized

Rampur, Palpa
Rice fields are being converted into towns. Few brokers purchase plots of high yielding land and sell them for building houses. The district land preservation office has the record that about three hectares of land have been sold in the Rampur valley alone in the fiscal year 2064/2065. This is more than the double size of the last year.
Retired Indian army man Ram Bahadur Rana, whose house was on a high hill nearby the valley, has bought the land by paying 0.7 million for 0.45 Ropanis. He came here due to the availability of modern facilities such as transportation, schools, hospitals and more.
Gobinda Tiwari, a business man in the valley, says it is foolishness to sell the rice field and get few million rupees, done by few capitalists. “The nation must bring concrete planning to promote agricultural activities so that such irrigated and high yielding fields would not be occupied with concrete buildings,” added he.
It is high time to come up with land concept utility and manage it scientifically.