By Our Correspondent

Jhapa, Feb. 17: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli Sunday said that no person needs to occupy the public and government land for being poor and landless.
Addressing a mass meeting organised at Beldangi Sports Ground in Damak, Prime Minister Oli said that the government would take care of all poor and landless people across the country.
Pointing a previous trend of encroaching public land in the name of landless, the Prime Minister said that the government would end the need of encroaching public land by landless and poor people for their living.“Time to encroach public land in the name of poverty and landlessness has now been over; the government will take responsibility of all poor and landless people,” he said.
He said that the government would construct houses and provide foods and works to those who lacked them. “No one needs to beg on the roads for their survival and need not to worry for their residences,” he said.
He said that the government would return all public and government land encroached illegally by individuals from across the country.
“The time of being assured of having ownership of the public land after registering it in their names through a lengthy process of cheating has gone. The government is arresting such big frauds from across the countries,” the Prime Minister said. He said that no one involved in illegal activities would be spared.
He said that the government was also showing its serious concerns over small issues that affected the livelihood of the people besides focusing on mega projects including rail, electricity development, ship, etc.
He said that the campaign started by the government to distribute warm clothes in the Terai had reduced the number of people dying from cold wave to zero this year.
Prime Minister Oli claimed that pace of development activities was moving in an unbelievable way within a short time.
“The government has blacktopped around 3,000 kilometers road over one fiscal year. Besides, around 235 concrete bridges were constructed during the year,” he said.
Recalling that Nepal was the first nation to generate power in South Asia 100 years ago, he said that access to power had reached 88 per cent.
He said that the government expected to continue the pace of development works and expand power across the country in the days to come.
Prime Minister Oli said that the situation to become jobless would not come by keeping fertile land barren.“I am very happy to meet the people of my hometown after the completion of big surgery of my health,” he said.
He also introduced Dr. Ramesh Singh Bhandari who carried his surgery from the podium. Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Basanta Kumar Nembang, Former Chairman of Constituent Assembly Subas Chandra Nembang, Chief Minister of State-1 Sher Dhan Rai and State Governor Somnath Pyasi were also present in the programme.
The Prime Minister had a busy schedule today. He participated in five different programmes organised in the district.
He inaugurated the newly blacktopped road -- Krishna Mandir-Beldangi Road section of Damak Municipality in Jhapa, newly constructed concrete motorable bridge over the Mawa Khola which connects Madhumalla of Morang.
Likewise, Prime Minister Oli laid foundation stone for blacktopping at zero point of Beldangi, Damak and delivered his speech addressing the convention organised at sports ground situated at Beldangi.He also laid foundation stone for the construction of deprived model housing at Damak-1.