PM. CA CHAIRMAN DISCUSS DELAYED CONSTITUTION

PM, CA CHAIRMAN DISCUSS CONSTITUTION PROMULGATION

Kathmandu, 9 March : Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has said that he has been firmly committed to adopt new constitution within coming May 27, RSS reports .

At a meeting with Constituent Assembly Chairman Subas Nembang at Prime Minister´s residence Friday morning, he informed about the talks being held with two main political parties to take ahead the peace process to a conclusion within mid-March.

Talking to RSS after meeting with the Prime Minister, Nembang said Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai apprised him on the meeting of three political parties scheduled for Sunday, which he claimed will yield concrete results.

´I requested the prime minister to work out to yield results at a time when the promise by the government and political parties to remove all types of difficulties on peace and constitution-making within mid-March´, he said.

The CA chairman made it clear that he also drew the prime minister´s attention toward accomplishing all the works of peace and constitution.

Discussions with the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML are being held for peace and constitution and it would draw some results soon, CA Chair Nembang quoted prime minister as saying.
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BOMBS PLANTED AT A PRIVATE HOUSE NEAR NEPALGUNJ

Kathmandu, 9 March: Two socket bombs were planted at the house of Ayoddhya Prasad Loniya at Krantipur Belahari-7 near Nepaljung, police said.
The bombs were recovered Friday.
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FRUIT, VEGETABLE MARKET VICTIMS CONTINUE DEMAND FOR COMPENSATION

Kathmandu, 9 March: Relatives of the dead people of Kalimati conflagration incident that occurred on March 3 have refused to collect the dead bodies from the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), RSS reports.

The relatives are denying receiving the corpses, citing government´s failure to provide rightful compensation.

A series of bilateral talks between Kalimati Fruits and Vegetable Market Development Committee and relatives of the deceased have remained inconclusive after the victim´s side demanded compensation.

Begam Pun, younger brother of the deceased Hira Bahadur said they would not budge from their stance until they were duly compensated.

Executive Director of Kalimati Fruits and Vegetable Market Development Committee Arjun Aryal has urged the victim´s relatives to collect the dead bodies saying that the Committee has already recommended the Ministry of Agriculture and District Administration Office for compensation.

Aryal said the Committee will bear the cost of treatment of the injured if the government fails to pay their treatment bill and the government has been recommended to form a high-level probe panel for the investigation of the Kalimati inferno.
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HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOLS RE-OPEN
Kathmandu, 9 March: Private and community higher secondary schools across the country which were shutdown for four days have been resumed from Friday, RSS reports..
Regular classes were obstructed at around 4,000 private and community higher secondary schools for four days after the Higher Secondary Teachers' Association Nepal (HISTAN) had called banda from Tuesday due to government's apathy to implement the past agreements.
According to Chairman of the HISTAN, Deepak Subedi, classes at private and community higher secondary schools have been resumed after the Ministry of Education (MoE) committed to meeting the demands raised by the HISTAN.

Earlier too, such protest programs were postponed after the MoE frequently committed to implementing the suggestions submitted by a taskforce formed under the coordination of the then Minister of State for Education Govinda Chaudhary two years ago.

The demands of HISTAN include permanent status of teachers working in higher secondary schools, permanent affiliation to the higher secondary schools, among others.

There are as many as 600,000 students at private and community higher secondary schools throughout the country and 13,500 teachers associated to the HISTAN.
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AMBULANCE MISUSED FOR SMUGGLING

Kathmandu, 9 March: Biratnagar police today [Thursday] made public an ambulance, which was impounded yesterday for smuggling medicinal items, its driver and items that were smuggled, at a press conference at Morang District Police Office, The Himalayan Times reports.

The ambulance belongs to Nobel Medical College, Biratnagar.

According to Morang DSP Uma Prasad Chaturbedi, the ambulance was impounded after it was found that it was smuggling medicinal items hidden in 14 cartons that were said to be worth around Rs 4 million from the bordering Indian city Jogbani. Yesterday a police team had intercepted the ambulance in connection with its involvement in hitting a motorcyclist in the bordering area at around 9pm. After finding that the vehicle was carrying medicinal items, which were not cleared by the customs office, the police team had impounded the vehicle and detained its driver Dron Khadka.

Khadka, however, argued that he was ‘instructed to smuggle the items’ by Narayan Neupane, a night-shift in-charge at the medical college. The items that were being smuggled include a microscope and several materials used in surgery. The medical college could have evaded tax up to Rs 2 lakhs had the police not got hold of the ambulance. According to DSP Chaturbedi, police will send the smuggled items, the vehicle and its driver to Biratnagar Customs for necessary action.

When asked, Administration Officer at Nobel Medical College, Narayan Dahal, said the college had sent someone to clear the customs but ‘he might have reached the customs office late, and the ambulance must have passed through’
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