KATHMANDU : The government has decided to not forward the US’ state partnership programme (SPP).
The meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Monday took this decision. The Cabinet also decided that every government agency needs to make communications on diplomatic relations via the Foreign Ministry.
Similarly, the government has appointed a noted journalist Dharmendra Jha as Chairman of the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS). Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, shared this information by organizing a press conference at the ministry today.
The newly appointed Chairperson of RSS, Jha, is the former central chairperson of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ).
Similarly, it was decided in the meeting to announce Jay Prithvi Bahadur Singh as the national luminary in recognition to his contribution of Nepal’s development of education sector and his endeavour to make Nepal known to the world.
Executive Chairperson of Nepal Airlines Corporation, Yubraj Adhikari, has been relieved from the post as per Section 20 of NAC Act, 2019 and investigation initiated on him.
The government also decided to allow the use of national forest sector for the construction of 132 KV transmission line along Kohalpur-Surkhet.
