Consultations wrap up on drafting land-use policy | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
Julio 2015
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OBL:73557

The government has promised to secure ethnic rights and the rights of original landowners in setting a new national land use policy...A national forum to discuss a draft national land use policy, which will create a framework for a new national land law, was held on June 29 and 30 in Nay Pyi Taw. Discussion was dominated by the question of the rights of ethnic community organisations and other rights groups.

The Land Use Scrutiny and Allocation Central Committee (LUSAC), a government body led by Vice President U Nyan Tun which is steering the policy-formulation process, promised to update the draft in keeping with the decisions taken by the forum.

“We will respectfully insert the decisions of this forum into the draft,” said committee secretary U Kyaw Kyaw Lwin, who is also a deputy minister in the President’s Office.

The forum decided to include representatives of farmers’ organisations in the National Land Use Council. The latest draft, the sixth, says the council should be chaired by the vice president and should include the relevant Union ministers and state and region chief ministers.

The draft would re-categorise ethnic ancestral land in accordance with the new land law and stop granting concessions on existing categories such as forest, farm or fallow land before completing the re-categorisation.

It would also use traditional disputes settlement practices and allow the participation of ethnic representatives in dispute-settlement procedures.

The ethnic CSOs demanded the inclusion of ethnic representatives at the decision-making level.

Government officials said the new dispute settlement mechanism should not contradict the existing judiciary system.

“The traditional dispute settlement mechanism is recognised at the community level, but when the dispute is referred to the court, the mechanism should not contradict the existing judicial system. The decision will be made by the judge,” said U Tint Swe, the director of the Forest Administration Department of the Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, the focal ministry for formulating new land policy...

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Sandar Lwin

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The Myanmar Times (Burmese: မြန်မာတိုင်း(မ်); MLCTS: mran ma: tuing: [mjànmá táɪn]), founded in 2000, is the oldest privately owned and operated English-language newspaper in Myanmar. The Myanmar Times published weekly English and Burmese-language news journals until March 2015, when the English edition began publishing daily, five days per week.

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