The High Level Taskforce, formed to resolve contentious issues pertaining to constitution drafting, could not decide on land reform and the provision on land ceiling as the political parties refused to be flexible in today's meeting.
While the Unified CPN (Maoist) proposed that no compensation should be given for the land crossing the limit of the land ceiling, the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML supported the idea of providing compensation. The Maoists also maintained that social justice can be delivered after distributing the land owned by feudalists to poor farmers.
As of now the taskforce has 42 unsettled disputes related to constitution drafting, out of nearly 200 disputes of eight thematic committees of the Constituent Assembly.
The next meeting of the taskforce has been scheduled for 1 December as its coordinator and Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda will be engaged in his party's extended plenum next week onwards.