DSP HARKHA RAK PAMTA SUSPENDED

DSP HARKHA RAJ PANTA SUSPENDED

Kathmandu, 24 Dec.: Armed Police Force DSP Harkha Raj
Panta was suspended Friday.
He was held with his police convoy this week smuggling in
goods from across the border in Tibet to the capital at
Sindhupalchowk.
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• CIAA TELLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY TO SCRAP EXISTING ALL-PARTY MECHANSMS FOUND DEALING IN IRREGULARITIES
Kathmandu, 24 Dec.: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority has directed the Ministry of Local Development to scrap ‘illegally nominated’ all-party mechanism in the local bodies, saying political parties’ involvement has been the major cause of irregularities, The Himalayan Times reports.

The CIAA directive today came a day after the Transparency International in its report yesterday said political parties were among the most corrupt institutions in the country.

The local bodies, where elections are due for a decade, are being run by all-party mechanism nominated by political parties.

The constitutional anti-graft body said rights, responsibility and accountability defined for the all-party mechanism were not justifiable. Three years ago, a Cabinet meeting had decided to run the local bodies by nominating an all-party mechanism in the local bodies.

In a statement issued today, the anti-corruption body has directed MoLD to call the illegally and unconstitutionally formed all-party mechanism null and void. It has also directed the ministry to form new users’ committees to run the local bodies. “However, the representatives in the users’ committees should be independent individuals,” it said.

The concept of users’ committees was brought to select plans and programmes, but it turned out to be a fiasco after political parties violated the existing rules and regulations and nominated their representatives in the committees. The anti-graft body has concluded that misappropriation of development funds was rife in the local bodies. The government allocates about Rs 45 billion to the local bodies every year.
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