People's Participation (A Case Study of Chamati Land Pooling In Kathmandu Metropolitan City)

Abstract

The government is almost the sole of services in the rural sectors of developing countries. People centered development culture has not yet been institutionalized in Nepal. In the academic discourse the decentralization has come to be regarded as the best way of integrating local people in the web of development. Development practitioners, however, see decentralization as a necessary but not a sufficient condition for involving cross section of local people into development intervention. Because of the elite domination, the power mass, the poor and the marginalized and successfully block their meaningful integration in local government in Nepal. The local government have to shoulder the increasing responsibility for the provision of public goods and services and the management of public goods and services and the management of public money in order to fulfill the responsibility effectively and properly, local government bodies must maintain fiscal discipline i.e. the ability to spend tax paid money and local resources effectively and in accordance with national and local micro economic objectives and targets. Present study is an endeavor to have a fresh look at the local governance status through assenting the level of people’s participation in developing process. The study also explores the actors and factors shaping participation as well as causes for non participation in Land pooling process in Nepal. For the purpose of the study the Chamati Land Pooling project was selected. For the research numbers of respondents from among the community members have been interviewed through a structured questionnaire. Furthermore, selected respondent like representative of landowner, the executive officer of KMC, engineer and project implementation officer were also interviewed.