In a meeting
of the National Concern and Coordination Committee held today in Singha Durbar,
the present members of the House of Representatives; and the National Assembly
said a delay in making federal acts and laws had hampered the performance and
work efficiency of province and local-level mechanisms.
The
Article 235 (1) of the Nepal
Lawmakers
Indu Kadariya, Jeevan Budha, Prakash Pant, Ramesh Prasad Yadav, Ramchandra Rai,
Komal Oli and Surendra Raj Pandey expressed their concerns over growing
corruption at local level due to as they said lack of formulation of required
acts and laws on time. They took a time to call on the government to make a
prompt initiation towards that end.
National
Association of Rural Municipality in
Nepal; and Federation of District Coordination
Committee, Nepal have sought the
formulations of District Coordination Operation Act and all necessary federal
laws without any further delay.
Also present in the meeting was Finance
Minister Dr Yubaraj Khatiwada who said the country was in the very first year
of the implementation of federalism and the government had to keep it engaged
in other affairs such infrastructure development, employees adjustment,
institutional arrangements and so on.
Minister
for Federal Affairs and General Administration Lalbabu Pandit said the drafts
of Federal Civil Service and the Employees Adjustment Act were under
discussions in the Council of Ministers and they would be finalized soon.
In his
response to queries from lawmakers, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary
Affairs, Bhanubhakta Dhakal, said the government was fully committed towards
the enforcement of the federalism.
As said
by Minister Dhakal, 339 laws are presently active in the country; and of them,
165 have got a full shape while 165 laws require no immediate amendments. Some
laws, out of remaining 174, need to be amended or revised and some new ones
need to be formulated. "There is an instant need to formulate 36 new
laws," he said, adding that some Nepal
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