Road widening and setback check (mapdanda)

Roads in Nepal have a planned width (right of way). Land inside it can be taken without compensation when the road is widened, and you cannot build within the setback beyond it.

Land the road can take

1 m · 108 sq ft

0.31 aana · 5% of the plot

Build from

2.5 m

from your boundary

Buildable area

1,884 sq ft

5.5 aana

• • Ask the municipality's planning section or the Department of Roads division office for the exact mapdanda of your road, and see it marked on the napi naksa (cadastral map).
• • Widening is measured from the centre line of the road as it is today, so both sides give up land equally.
• • Estimate only. The Land Revenue Office (Malpot) or your municipality has the final figure.