Group, not individual liaison officers to be attached to expeditions

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 9 July: A group .not individual liaison officers, will be attached with expeditions to popular Himalayan peaks like Mount Everest, Ama Dablam, Manaslu and other peaks, Kantipur reports.
Altogether 326 Himalayan peaks have been categorized in three groups.
The new arrangement has been made after repeated complaints liaison officers weren’t going to designated peaks with expeditions.
“One group will be attacked to popular destinations,” Under-Secretary Surendra Prasad Sapkota at the Tourism Ministry said.
The group of ten will have one chief liaison officer [LO], at least two assistant Los, one to four security personnel and health workers.
A group will be attached with expeditions for 45 days after which the first team will be replaced by another group.
The old LO system will continue for peaks where junior government officers are sent.
Military and police personnel and trained sherpas will be sent in groups,
A concept paper has been prepared and could be implemented in another 45 days.
The remuneration of persons being attacked to groups is being fixed stop bargaining for facilities by LOs now prevalent.
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No casualties in two Jhapa bombings

Kathmandu, 9 July: Kirat Workers’ Libearation Party set off to powerful cooker bombs at two places in Jhapa overnight..
There were no casualties.
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Govt. union demands minimum wage

Kathmandu, 9 July: A union of government union Thursday demanded minimum and maximum wage of Rs 12,000 and Rs 45,000 respectively for employees ahead of the presentation of the annual budget 2009/10 next week.
The union also demanded reduction in pay scale difference between the low and high-ranking officials.
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Bhaktapur outrage

Kathmandu, 9 July: For the second consecutive day, students and supporters of two slain students came out on the streets disrupting movement of vehicles on the highway between Bhaktapur and the capital.
Movement of vehicles was also disrupted on the Kaathmandu-Kodari highway linking Nepal and Tibet.
Police denied charge the two slain students were child abductors.
The two youth were lynched to death in an apparent gang fight.
Ten suspects have been arrested as home ministry asked people not to law into law into their own hands.
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