CA MEETS TO DRAW UP ANOTHER SCHEDULE TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES ON A CONSTITUTION

CA MEETS FRIDAY TO DISCUSS
DRAWING UP ANOTHER SCHEDULE TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES ON A CONSTITUTION

Kathmandu, 6 Jan.: The constituent assembly (CA) meets Friday.
after a Prachanda sub-committee tp resolve differences between
parties on themes to be incorporated in constitution by 28 May couldn’t meet a 30 December deadline.
The main constitution drafting committee headed by Nilambar
Acharya couldn’t meet its 5 January deadline to complete a report on differences and begin drafting a basic law.
Major parties have suggested extending a schedule for the second time uuntil 29 January to make another attempt to resolve differences.
The assembly will consider the request Friday.
Chairman Subash Nemwang held consultations with party leaders Thursday ahead of Friday’s talks.
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3-YEAR HOME MINISTRY ACTION PLAN
Kathmandu, Jan 5 , The Ministry of Home Affairs Thursday made public its ‘ambitious’ 3-year ‘Home Administration Strengthening Plan-2068’ after holding a series of security meetings across the country and consultations with the Home Ministry officials and other stakeholders,
Purusottam Khatri writes in The Rising Nepal.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar, while making the plan public, claimed that his ‘ambitious’ plan would be brought into implementation at any cost.
The Ministry has projected a total cost of Rs. 22.04 billion for the implementation of the plan in three years. The first phase of the budget amounting to Rs. 5.12 billion would be released from the Finance Ministry within the current fiscal year 2068/69 B.S.
Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun had already agreed to release the budget for the first phase work, DPM Gachchhadar said at a press conference organized at the ministry.
In the second and third phases, the Home Ministry

would receive budgets amounting to Rs. 8.90 billion and Rs. 8.01 billion respectively for the fiscal year of 2069/70 and 2070/71 B.S.
The Home administration strengthening plan basically focuses on the timely upgrade and development in skills and physical infrastructure of the three security organizations, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and National Investigation Department, under the Home Ministry.
DPM Gachchhadar said that the newly introduced plan somehow tried to incorporate some important security measures adopted by the Special Security Planning (SSP), which was introduced during the tenure of former Home Minister Bhim Rawal.
The planning has specially focused on strengthening the current physical infrastructure for security administration, fulfilling the needs of related logistics, developing human resources, maintaining fiscal discipline within the security organizations, establishing political neutrality of security bodies and discouraging political interference inside them.
The main aim of the plan was to ensure a full-fledged security to the general public, Gachchhadar said.
The newly introduced plan aimed at creating fresh vacancies of 9,880, 6,235 and 600 in Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and National Investigation Department (NID) respectively within three years. Similarly, the ministry has also planned to add 337 vacancies at the Home Ministry and its other offices operated under the ministry.
It has also aimed at creating immediate vacancies of 4050, 2256, and 300 at Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and NID within the current fiscal year.
Under the physical infrastructure development, the plan aims at constructing 350 new buildings of regional administration offices, district administration offices, district prisons, district police offices, separate units of Armed Police Force and sub offices of National Investigation Department.
When asked about the unequal ration allowances in three separate security organizations, Gachchhadar vowed that the Ministry would introduce equal allowance in the near future.
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PADT TO UNVEIL PASHUPATINATH, BASUKI TEMPLE
INCOME

Kathmandu, 6 Jan : The curiosity of many people waiting eagerly for years to know about the income of Pashupatinath and Basuki Temples, is likely to be satiated soon as Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) is about to complete a report on the amount of monetary offerings made by
Devotees, The Rising Nepal reports.
After a long wait and much controversy, Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) had decided to make public at the amount of monetary offerings of two temples on November 2 in 2011.
But the disclosure process could not complete after committee members and staffs including with Sushil Nahata, secretary of the PADT, Narottam Vaidya, treasurer at PADT, went for a 15-day long study visit to India.
The Ministry of Federal Affairs, Constituent Assembly, Parliamentary Affairs and Culture (MoFSCPAC) has extended the term of the panel formed to prepare the report on the monetary offering.
Earlier a sub-committee was formed to make public the monetary offerings of Pashupatinath but it failed in its task owing to a dispute among the Bhatta, Priests and Bhandaris.
Last year, a committee formed in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling proposed to the Ministry of Culture (MoC) that transparency could be maintained in Pashupatinath if the priests were given fixed salaries. The MoC had formed another sub-committee to conduct a comprehensive study on this matter.
The Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) on November 2, 2011decided to make public the amount of monetary offerings at both temples. The extended term of the panel ends on January 21.
Culture Minister Gopal Kirati on November 2 formed a seven-member committee headed by Nahata, which was given one month’s tenure to study and prepare the report.
Narattam Vaiday, treasure of PADT, said that the 15-days long visit to India affected the work to prepare the report. The team was in India from December 7 to study the management of eight shrines including Tirupati, Vaishnondevi and Siddhivinayak temples, he said.
The panel has already collected views of stakeholders, priests, storekeepers and caretakers, according to PADT.
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FURTHER DETAILS OF PM, BAIDHYA TALKS

Kathmandu, 6 Jan : Prime Minister and UCPN-Maoist vice-chairman Dr. Baburam Bhattarai Thursday urged senior vice-chairman Mohan Baidhya Kiran for unity in the party, The Rising Nepal reports.
PM Dr. Bhattarai went to Baidhya’s residence in Gongabu late this afternoon and held talks on bolstering the party’s unity in the wake of ongoing intense internal rift.
Talking to media persons, Dr. Bhattarai said that he stressed on synthesizing the opposing views surfaced during the party’s central committee meeting.
"Even in the past, there were different views in the party. We should keep the party unity intact by fusing the divergent lines," he said.
PM Dr. Bhattarai further said, "I am for the party unity. Hundred of thousands of people want that the Maoist party should not split."
It is learnt that Dr. Bhattarai urged Kiran to sort out their differences through CC and to solve those unsettled disputes through the party’s convention.
Sources claimed that Kiran had taken Dr. Bhattarai’s request with positive note.
Kiran, who has become a strong critic of Dr. Bhattarai-led government, presented his separate political in the ongoing CC meeting.
The meeting between the two vice-chairs holds significance as the rift in the party reacheeed at height.
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