Kathmandu, April 29: Lawmakers have drawn attention of the government on various contemporary issues.
During zero hour of today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, most of the lawmakers asked the government to address genuine demands of agitating teachers.
On the occasion, Bhagawati Chaudhary stressed that solution to the teachers’ agitation should be find out soon.
Blaming the government for not paying its serious attention to address the demands of agitating teachers, Bhanu Bhakta Joshi shared the government should take initiative to create an environment for agitating teachers to return to school.
Similarly, Mina Tamang and Maina Karki stressed the need of solving the problems of teachers through dialogue on time while Yogendra Mandal pointed out the need of bringing School Education Act soon.
Similarly, Man Bahadur Gurung drew government’s attention to construct necessary infrastructures at a time when Pokhara has already been declared tourist capital of Nepal while Manish Jha demanded to make public the property details of ministers.
Likewise, Mahesh Kumar Bartaula stressed the need of constructing Nijgadh fast track, the national pride project, on time.
Ranju Kumari Jha suggested the government to bring policy, programme and budget for coming fiscal year increasing child nutrition allowance while Mahesh Basnet asked the government to make arrangement of urea fertilizer for tea farmers in Ilam.
Menaka Kumari Pokhrel demanded the government to make arrangement for orphan children in government’s policy and programme for coming fiscal year. Similarly, Ram Hari Khatiwada asked the government to immediately forward the process for the appointment of governor.
Likewise, today’s meeting of the House of Representatives is taking place. Soon after the meeting began, lawmakers of the opposition parties protested by standing up from their respective seats.
After the protest of the opposition party lawmakers, Speaker Devraj Ghimire allowed Chief Whip of the CPN (Maoist Centre), Hitraj Pandey, to speak. On the occasion, lawmaker Pandey said discussion should be held on the resolution of urgent public importance registered in the parliament on Monday.
The resolution was registered in order to take initiatives to address the demands of agitating teachers. He asked Speaker Ghimire to issue a ruling to hold discussion in the parliament on the resolution and find out the solution to the problems today itself.
Similarly, Chief Whip of the CVPN (UML), Mahesh Bartaula, claimed that the government was serious to address the genuine demands of agitating teachers. He said it was necessary to settle the problems by holding discussion with teachers immediately.
“The Education Minister has been holding discussion continuously with representatives of teachers being serious on the issues raised in the House. I am hopeful that there will be a breakthrough by this evening”, mentioned Bartaula.
Likewise, lawmaker Prem Ale demanded fair investigation on the issue of financial embezzlement at Pokhara and Bhairahawa International Airport. Expressing concern over increasing attack of wild animals at different places of the country, parliamentarian Shova Gyawali drew the attention of the concerned bodies to resolve the problems.
Another lawmaker Gyan Bahadur Shahi urged the government to be serious to address the demands of agitating teachers. #nepal #house
