Kathmandu. Accountants have been agitated after the government continued its crackdown demanding that the land revenue and survey offices would be free of middlemen.
They have started the agitation saying that they have been terrorized by arresting, detaining and paying bail for doing the audit within the rules and regulations of the state.
Due to the agitation, the work of service recipients at the Survey and Land Revenue Office has been halted. Most of the work done from the land revenue is entered through the Land Service Center in the first phase. The service recipients are in a dilemma after the accountancy entrepreneurs stopped the work being done from the Land Service Center.
In order to reduce the role of middlemen, the government has been regulating the Land Service Centre Operation Directive-2076 BS for online services related to land such as land pass, plotting, namsari and registration. As per the provision, one has to get permission to work as an accountant and a deposit of Rs 50,000 personally and Rs 200,000 institutionally to operate such centers. Kanchan Neupane, president of the Nepal Lekhapadhi Lawyers Association, Morang, said that they had to resort to protest against the government’s illegal arrests.
“Until yesterday, we were providing services from the Land Service Centre. We have stopped the work as the government has not stopped the crackdown. Licensed professionals should be allowed to work. We have been called a forced middleman. Take action against those who act as middlemen, but stop arresting and arresting people on the basis of holding files. ’
Police have started arresting accountants from different places after the government launched a ‘clean-up campaign’ against the increase in middlemen in government offices. The entrepreneurs have said that they have been providing their services legally after obtaining a license from the district court.
The Association has made it clear that it will support the government to take action against any particular person who cheates or harass the service recipients. However, Neupane said that defaming the entire profession and institution and behaving like a criminal would not be acceptable.
“It is an insult to us to call entrepreneurs working with permission to operate courts and land service centres as middlemen. The government should immediately stop the crackdown and call for dialogue. The solution to the problem should be found through dialogue, not by forcibly arresting,” he said.
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