OFFICE OF BHUTWAL POWER COMPANY PADLOCKED

OFFICE OF BUTWAL POWER COMPANY PADLOCKED

Kathmandu, 9 Dec : All administrative works of Andhikhola Hydropower Centre at Galyang of Jagatradevi-8 of Syangja district under Butwal Power Company (BPC) have been obstructed after the officials has been padlocking the administration office for the past two weeks, RSS reports from Syangja .

Power upgrading works of the hydropower centre have been closed due to the agitation. BPC has different power production centres in Jhimruk of Pyuthan, Butwal, Kathmandu and Syangja.

The officials of Andhikhola Hydropower Centre padlocked the administration office as officials of all power production houses of the BPC were taken to street after the BPC decided to decrease bonus, which the BPC had been providing to its officials, from the current fiscal year.

Chairman of Employees´ Union of the BPC Andhikhola Hydropower Centre, Jaisur Rana, said the staffs launched the protest programs after the BPC cut the facilities provided to the staffs, which the BPC had been providing since 2062 BS.

The Hydropower Centre has been generating 5.1 mw power. Though power productions works have not been stopped, electricity distributing works have been partially affected due to closure of works at all branches of the Centre, informed the Hydropower Centre.
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ELDERLY WOMAN RAPED

Kathmandu, 9 Dec.: Police have arrested a man of Gatlang of the northern Rasuwa on the charge of involving in rape of an elderly woman and started action against him, RSS reports.

According to Chief of the District Police Office, Achyut Prasad Pudasaini, the arrestee is Cher Singh Tamang, 37, of Gatlang VDC-2. Investigation on the case is underway keeping Tamang into the custody.

It is said that Tamang raped 55-year-old woman of Kherogoun of Gatlang on December 1 when there were no other family member of the woman in the house.

Legal process to take action against Tamang has been forwarded after the victim filed a case against him.

Organizing a press conference, All Nepal Women´s Association, Rasuwa condemned the incident and demanded the stern action against the guilty.
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NEPAL CHARGES BHUTAN FOR NOT IMPLEMENTING AGREEENTS

Kathmandu, 9 Dec.: Ambassador Dinesh Bhattarai, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations, Thursday told Bhutan hasn’t implemented agreed decisions for the return home of Bhtanese refugees.
tohas stated that safe and dignified voluntary repatriation of refugees to the home country is the most durable solution to the refugee problem.
“Our efforts to resolve this tragic humanitarian issue through bilateral process, however, remain stalled due to the non-implementation of the agreed decisions by Bhutan,” he stated in the news release.
He called for the safe ad dignified return home of refugees as the best solution to the prolonged refugee problem.
The two-day ministerial met was convened Wednesday by UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Nearly 800 participants from 70 countries attended.
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