MARKET MONITORING TO CONTINUE

DEPT.OF COMMERCE TO CONTINUE MARKET MONITORING

Kathmandu, 14 Sept.: Department of Commerce (DoC) is continuing monitoring of the market in the capital Wednesday.
The DoC monitors will conduct inspections in the districts as well, senior official Anil Kumar Thakur said.
Tons of goods produced with sub-standard materials have been seized and outlets and manufacturing units have been sealed.
The government initiative is good and the campaign’s objective cab be met only if the effort is continuous and not limited to the festive season to gain popularity by the new government.
He adverse impact on health of general people through sale of inedible products is just staggering
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POLICE DOUBT EFFECTIVE SECURITYDURING FESTIVE SEASON





Kathmandu, 14 Sept : Chief police officers of the valley Tuesday expressed serious concerns and doubts over being able to provide effective security to the general public during the festival time as their Control Room Vehicles (CRVs) were in poor or no working conditions, Purusottam Khatri writes in The Rising Nepal..
The CRVs could stop working at any place during police patrolling and checking, they said.
The vehicles had been used for years without any maintenance and many of them were outdated, they said.
Currently, a total of 45 CRVs are in operation within Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur districts. According to police, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur police ranges have 10 CRVs each.
All these CRVs were running under the instruction of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s Office (MPCO), Ranipokhari, which is also called the Metro Control-1 police office of the valley.
One of the police officers at the Metropolitan Police Range, Bhaktapur, said the CRVs needed maintenance at least twice a week, which added a heavy economic burden to police administration.
"We cannot go for a long route patrolling and security checking when a situation demands only because of the poor condition of the CRVs," Puskhar K.C, Deputy Superintendent of Police of Bhaktapur police range, said.
Talking to The Rising Nepal, Kedar Rijal, Superintendent of Police and chief of Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range, Hanumandhoka, said that MPR, Kathmandu has got a total of 25 CRVs which were coming in use for police patrolling, checking and sometimes for combating criminal and other organized crimes.
SP Rijal said, "Because of the poor condition of CRVs, we have no faith on these vehicles; so we are giving more priority to motorcycle-based policing around the valley."
The motorcycle squads were found comparatively effective and prompt rather than CRVs, SP Rijal said.
SP Rijal said CRVs were currently in use only for short route police patrolling and checking.
"We are keeping these CRVs in the standby mode in major corners and chowks to combat possible crime, theft, burglary, and other serious criminal activities," Rijal added.
After a government decision recently, the Police Headquarters, Naxal provided 100 brand new motorcycles for the use by motorcycle squads in the valley during Dashain festival.
According to Superintendent of Police of Lalitpur Police Range, they recently received 10 new motorcycles for patrolling within Lalitpur district.
The rest of the motorcycles were used by Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range. The Metropolitan Police Range, Bhaktapur, was not given any new motorcycle.
"We are yet to get the new motorcycles though two other valley police ranges have already received them," DSP Puskar K.C said.
"We are forwarding a request letter at the police headquarters for seeking new motorcycles for the patrolling," he added.
Similarly, Lalitpur SP Bhog Bahadur Thapa complained about the poor condition of CRVs.
"The existing CRVs do not work properly and they may betray our police officers at anytime and anywhere," SP Thapa said.
SP Thapa opined that outdated CRVs must be replaced with new ones for effective policing in the valley.
SP Thapa informed that CRVs of Lalitpur were used only in the short route patrolling. "They are mostly kept within the city," he said.
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DON’T PRESS NEW PRE-CONDITIONS SAYS PM




Kathmandu, 14 Sept: Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai has urged the political parties and their leaders to support the government in its efforts to conclude the peace process and draft the new constitution, The Rising Nepal reports.
Speaking at a meeting of the Constitutional Committee (CC) of the Legislature Parliament at Singha Durbar on Tuesday, the Prime Minister urged the leaders not to put forward new conditions in such a way that will hinder the process of peace and constitution.
Dr Bhattarai said that if the process of peace and constitution fails, all the political parties and the nation as a whole would fail. This would put the Nepalese people in uncertainty, he cautioned.
Prime Minister Bhattarai said that the government would make a breakthrough in the peace process within a few days and added that it is the duty of all the political parties to support the government to conclude the peace and constitution writing process.
During the meeting, CC members pressured the top leaders of major political parties to concentrate on the mission of peace and constitution with due priority. It is the first CC meeting to be held since the tenure of the Constituent Assembly was extended on August 31.
The lawmakers stressed that the top leaders should devote their time and energy into the peace process and constitution drafting so that the tasks on peace and constitution could be completed within the extended CA deadline.
During the meeting, UCPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ briefed the meeting on the latest development in the peace process and assured that the top leaders were trying to reach the minimum point of agreement for new constitution and the peace process.
Prachanda said that the peace process was gaining momentum of late and expressed his hope that it would conclude within the extended deadline of the CA.
Talking to journalists after the meeting, Nepali Congress parliamentary party leader Ramchandra Poudel said that most of the CC members had suggested the top leaders of major parties to expedite works to end the peace process and to write the new constitution.
Poudel urged the Maoists not to set conditions on peace process and reiterated that his party was not ready to promulgate the new constitution before the conclusion of the peace process.
CC Chairman Nilambar Acharya said that the meeting sought the commitment of the top leaders to intensify the task of peace and constitution. He said that they should restart the long stalled meeting of the dispute resolution sub-committee to narrow down the contentious points of the constitution which is crucial to complete the constitution drafting.
Acharya said that the leaders were near consensus about the alternative mechanism to resolve the matters of state restructuring. Ten lawmakers expressed their views in today’s meeting.
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