New Town Development New Town Development and Urban Renewaland Urban Renewal

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ByBySanjaya Kumar KhanalSanjaya Kumar KhanalPrakash Mohan JoshiPrakash Mohan Joshi

NepalNepal

NEPALNEPAL

NepalNepalArea (sq km.)

Population (2001)

Population Growth Rate (1991-2001)

Population Density (Persons/sq.km)

Urban Population

GDP per capita (2001)

Total Road Length (kms.)

Life Expectancy

Male

Female

Literacy Rate

147,181

23 Million

2.2%

180

14%

US$ 320

15,905

59.4 years

58.6 years

57 %

GeographyGeography• 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

Ministry of Labor and Transport ManagementMinistry of Labor and Transport Management

MINISTER

SECRETARY

Policy, Planning, Research & International Relations Department

Transport Management Department

Dept. of Labor & Employment Promotion

Labour Mgt. Monitoring, Human Resource & Technical Dept

Labour Management Section

Human Resource Dev. & Employment Section

Policy, Planning & Documentation Section

Child Labour & International Relation Section

Corporation & Transport Mgt.

Transport Planning

Administration Section

Occupational Safety & Health Project

Skill Dev. Training Centers (14)

Vocational Centers (2)

Labour Offices (10)

MandateMandate

• 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.

Present StatusPresent 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.

IssuesIssues• 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

Measures TakenMeasures 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.

Major Policies and LegislationsMajor 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.

Major Policies and LegislationsMajor 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.

Vision for countryVision 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.

Thank YouThank You

for

Your Kind Attention.

Dhanyabad