1. New Town Development and Urban Renewal
Country Report Prepared for Korea Singapore TCTP Program By
Sanjaya Kumar Khanal
Prakash Mohan Joshi
Nepal

2. NEPAL

3. Nepal 147,181 Area (sq km.) 23 Million Population (2001) 2.2%
180
14%
US$ 320
15,905
59.4 years
58.6 years
57 %
Area (sq km.)
Population (2001)
Population Growth Rate ( )
Population Density (Persons/sq.km)
Urban Population
GDP per capita (2001)
Total Road Length (kms.)
Life Expectancy
Male
Female
Literacy Rate

4. Geography Geographical Regions
High Himalayan Region: snowcapped mountains, trans-Himalayan valleys sparsely populated and mostly non-arable. No road links yet. Coveted destination for mountaineers.
Mid Mountain Region: Mostly inhabited. Some clusters and other places very scattered. Sometimes has to go miles from settlement to another. District Headquarters mostly linked.
Terai Region: Plains, fertile granary, heavily populated, well linked by roads. More amenable to construction works

5. Ministry of Labor and Transport Management
MINISTER
SECRETARY
Labour Mgt. Monitoring, Human Resource & Technical Dept
Policy, Planning, Research & International Relations Department
Transport Management Department
Dept. of Labor & Employment Promotion
Occupational Safety & Health Project
Labour Management Section
Policy, Planning & Documentation Section
Corporation & Transport Mgt.
Skill Dev. Training Centers (14)
Transport Planning
Human Resource Dev. & Employment Section
Child Labour & International Relation Section
Vocational Centers (2)
Administration Section
Labour Offices (10)

6. Mandate
Planning and implementation of policies, programs, strategies for employment promotion, industrial relations, social protection, occupational health and safety.
Planning and implementation of policies, programs and strategies for the management of transports.
Shares this functions with many other ministries such as Ministry of Physical Planning and Works, Ministry of Local Development, Municipalities, Several Town Development Committees.

7. Present Status
Capital City Kathmandu largest with Population of 1 million. Four other municipalities within the valley having more than 50,000 population.
58 municipalities including five regional and 75 district headquarters outside Kathmandu.
132 small towns and market centers.
7 world heritage sites.
Only 60 out of 75 district headquarters are connected by roads.
On average every km. of road serves about 1200 people.
5 new settlements developed in the margins of Kathmandu.
A new project is proposed for more systematic new town development – Harisiddhi.

8. Issues
Coordination of multi-sectoral agencies and investment and synchronizing their policies, priorities and allocations
Increasing industrial and vehicular pollution and degradation of socio-cultural and natural environment.
Inadequate convergence and weak compliance and enforcement of policies…
Aging and overstretched infrastructures
Weakness of Town Development Committees
Suboptimal trade offs and financing of programs
Centralization of opportunities

9. Measures Taken Introduction of building permit mechanism.
Establishment of Town Development Fund.
Physical Plans for all Town Development Committees.
Rural urban partnership program.
Renovation of old monuments and cultural sites.
Kathmandu Valley 2020.
Efforts to develop satellite towns.
Urban Environment improvement project.
Introduction of electrical vehicles.

10. Major Policies and Legislations
National Housing Policy
National Transport Policy
20-Years’ Perspective Road Plan
Public Infrastructure Building and Transfer Policy
The Building Code
Town Development Act, 1989
Ancient Monuments Conservation Act, 1957
Road Board Act, 2002
Building Act, 1998
Local Governance Act, 1998
Others: Land Acquisition Act, Public Road Act, Transportation Act.

11. Major Policies and Legislations
All of them aim at:
Checking uncontrolled haphazard urbanization,
Promoting safe and affordable housing,
Conserving cultural, touristic and historical sites and heritage,
Attracting greater participation of private sector and public in general in building infrastructures,
Introducing of users’ cost, road fund board for maintenance of roads,
Deepening rural urban linkages
Integrating urban development plan into one.

12. Vision for country
Development of a safe, beautiful, comfortable, green, healthy, socially harmonious and affordable urban settlements and renovation of old towns, old architectural heritage sites keeping with distinct Nepalese local traditions.

13. Thank You
for
Your Kind Attention.
Dhanyabad