Kathmandu, June 3: Lawmakers speaking in the ‘zero hour’ in the House of Representatives today called attention of the government towards the problem of power outage (load-shedding) in various districts.
They drew the government’s attention towards Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) resorting to power cuts or ‘load-shedding’ amidst the increasing temperature in the Tarai districts.
Lawmaker Dhawal Shumsher Janga Bahadur Rana urged the government to make arrangements for the regular power supply as the power cuts amidst the excessive heat has made the life of people further difficult.
Dr Toshima Karki drew the government’s attention, saying the election constituency number 3 of Lalitpur district was facing shortage of water despite the location in the area of the Melamchi Water Supply Project’s water tank with a storage capacity of 18 million litres.
Deepak Bahadur Singh called attention of the government towards the Republic Markers located in the precincts of Narayanhiti Palace not being opened for viewing by the general public despite five years since they were constructed.
Dilendra Prasad Badoo expressed his objection, saying the present government has reduced the grant amount to the local levels in contravention of the main spirit of federalism.
Deepa Sharma said that the people of Banke district and the Karnali province have not got to experience that the ‘load-shedding’ has come to an end.
Durga Rai drew the government’s attention towards the urgent need of road construction in Bhojpur district while Dev Prasad Timilsina urged the government to conduct an assessment of the damage caused by storm and hailstone in various places of the country and provide compensation and relief to the affected people.
Nagina Yadav demanded that the problems faced by the farmers such as shortage of fertilizer, irrigation facilities and drinking water should be addressed.
Pratima Gautam stressed on the need of resolving the problem related to the management of solid waste and road footpath through discussions while Pratikshya Tiwari called for finding out sustainable solution to the problem of shortage of drinking water and irrigation in the Madhes province.
Prem Suwal inquired about the works being carried out by the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation. “What has been the Ministry of Poverty Alleviation been doing,” he questioned.
Similarly, Narayani Rana, Prem Bahadur Maharjan, Basudev Ghimire, Bindabasini Kansakar, Binita Kathayat, Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan, Nirmala Koirala, Naina Kala Thapa, Nisha Dangi, Narayan Prasad Acharya and Deepak Giri called attention of the government towards the damage caused by the storm, the sky-rocketing market prices of essentials and the problem of load-shedding seen in various districts.
