KATHMANDU: Chairperson of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Rajendra Lingden, has commented that the government’s policy and programmes have not touched the people’s sentiment.
Putting forth his views on government’s policy and programmes for the coming fiscal year 2022/23 in today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, he shared that the policy and programmes had not addressed the issues of youths who are forced to go overseas for employment.
Similarly, Surendra Karki of CPN (Maoist Centre) urged the government to pay attention in improvement of educational, health and agriculture sectors. He said that it was necessary to increase investment in agriculture sector, complaining that though the policy and programmes incorporated all issues, no priority waqs set.
Purna Kumari Subedi expressed the belief that there would be arrangement of concessional loan in agriculture and budget for easy and smooth supply of chemical fertilizer.
Other lawmakers—Amrita Thapa, Devendra Raj Kandel, Rajendra Mahato, Lalbabu Pandit, Bharat Kumar Sah, Naradmuni Rana, Man Bahadur Bishwokarma, and Binda Pandey, among others put forth their views on the policy and programmes.
Similarly, President of Development and Technology Committee, Kalyani Khadka presented Committee’s annual report-2078 in the meeting.
The HoR will meet next at 11:00 Saturday.
Meanwhile, Chairperson of CPN (Unified Socialist) Madhav Kumar Nepal has said the country does not need ship nor view towers but the skills for youths.
Chairperson Nepal also said House of Representatives (HoR) should not be made a platform to cast aspersion among political parties. He said it while participating in the discussion on government policy and programmes on Friday.
He urged the lawmakers to respect the HoR where citizen’s concern should be voiced and discussed.
Also the former prime minister, Chairperson Nepal viewed the country has witnessed change as per the concept of the founding general secretary of communist party, Pushpa Lal, who had said Nepal could make big changes with the collaboration among leftist and democratic forces. Nepal should move ahead by keeping in centre the national need, he added.
Foreign policy should be adopted by keeping in centre the national interest, he said, expressing happiness over the prioritization of agriculture, tourism, hydropower and industries in the present policy and programmes.
Now, it is time to implement effectively the policy and programmes on modernization and commercialization of agriculture.
He stressed on taking decision on objective ground for the development projects like construction of highways.
In a different note, he observed that the victory of independent candidate reflects people’s aspiration. It also warrants attention on people’s declined interest in politics and needs action against corruption.
The former prime minister expressed dissatisfaction over the construction of airports in a random way. He however wondered why the construction of Nijgadh airport was stopped.
Similarly, lawmaker Pramod Sah said the policy and programmes this year have finely prioritized agriculture, drinking water, electricity and industry.
