Nepal

Kathmandu, July 25

The government has decided to form a team for holding talks in relation to acceptance of USD 120 million proposed by the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank for implementation of a project related to youth employment.

Speaking at a press conference organised in Singha Durbar today to disclose the decisions of the July 22 Cabinet meeting, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gokul Baskota said the government had also granted approval in principle, to the authority concerned to formulate the Nepal Port Authority Bill.

Similarly, the Cabinet decided to approve 213 new positions at the Ministry of Water Supply, 50 at the Ministry of Forests and Environment and 726 at the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security. This decision paves the way for the ministries concerned to hire employees in the approved positions.

Minister Baskota said the Cabinet had decided to invalidate the Nepali citizenship of Indian national Munsilal Pasi, make alteration in the details to be mentioned in the national ID card and provide a cash relief of Rs 500,000 to the next of kin of Chandradev Bhatta, who was recently killed in Kanchanpur.

Similarly, the grieving families of Nirmal Sah and Ramesh Kumar Chaudhary of Rautahat district will get Rs 500,000 as cash relief. The duo, inmates of Rautahat District Prison, were killed in a road accident while being taken to the court for hearing.

The Cabinet has also decided to lease out around 41 ropani government land to Kathmandu Institute of Child Health in Budhanilkantha Municipality, Kathmandu.

Minister Baskota said other decisions included the approval of the Telecommunications (Ninth Amendment) Rules and appointment of Purusottam Prasad Khanal as chairperson of Nepal Telecommunications Authority.

Likewise, secretaries Ramesh Prasad Singh and Madhusudan Adhikari have been transferred to the Water and Energy Commission and the Ministry of Urban Development respectively.

Similarly, a report prepared by lawmaker Som Prasad Pandey and his political talks team will be submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs for necessary action and implementation as per the recommendations mentioned therein. The government has also granted approval for submission of Madan Bhandari Science and Technology University Bill to the Federal Parliament.

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Kathmandu, July 25

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is also a co-chair of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has thrown his weight behind Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Ishwar Pokharel in his bid to become chief of the Training Department of the party.

Pokharel is a staunch supporter of peoplemulti-party democracy propounded by late Madan Bhandari.

On the other hand, another Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been trying to make party Spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha the chief of the Training Department.

Leaders representing former CPN-UML and erstwhile CPN-MC want to wrest control of this department as it plays a crucial role in indoctrinating party cadres.

This department is important also because of the ongoing debate on whether to adopt PMPD or peopledemocracy of 21st century advocated by former CPN-MC is an issue the party will have to grapple with in the General Convention of the party. Whichever option is adopted will become the formal ideology of the NCP.

Lack of consensus between co-chairs Oli and Dahal over who should lead the Training Department led to postponement of the NCP secretariat meeting planned for today. This meeting was supposed to take a final call on the 33 departments of the party, including the chiefs of those departments.

Spokesperson Shrestha told THT that the scheduled meeting of the secretariat was postponed mainly because co-chairs did not have enough time to finalise the meeting agenda and they also needed to attend a programme organised to mark the death anniversary of founder leader of Nepal Communist Party Nara Bahadur Karmacharya. NCP leader Ghana Shyam Bhusal has also staked his claim for the post of late.

According to party sources, Oli and Dahal have held multiple informal meetings recently to finalise the name of the chief of Training Department but have failed to forge consensus on a common candidate.

&I have just evinced my interest for the Training Department,& Bhusal said and added that any leader who led the department would have to advocate the partyline irrespective of his/her personal views. He said a leader truly committed to the partyideology would, however, do his/her job more efficiently.

An NCP source said Oli would back Pokharel for the post, but if he failed to secure his nomination, he could propose that both co-chairs lead the department.

The UML and CPN-Maoist Centre merged last year to form NCP.

The source said some party leaders wanted to make former prime minister Jhalanath Khanal the chief of Training Department, but since he was against PMPD in the fifth GC, there was slim chance Oli and leaders close to him would support Khanalnomination.

A senior leader of the party said Oli was backing Pokharel because he deserved the post. &When Pokharel had to go underground to advance the cause of the communist party, Narayan Kaji Shrestha was associated with the NC,& the source added.

Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gokul Baskota said the party could not ignore PMPD. At a weekly press conference in his office today, he said his party came thus far only on account of PMPD and it should continue to stick to the ideology.

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