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A parliamentary committee’s report on Investigation of Enforced Disappeared Persons, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Third Amendment) Bill, 2081 has been tabled in the House of Representatives (HoR).

Chairperson of the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee, Bimala Subedi tabled the committee's report on the bill in the Parliament meeting today.

The HoR had sent the bill to the committee for clause-wise discussion. It may be noted that the committee’s meeting on August 8 had unanimously passed the report on the bill.

Also today, Chairperson of the Infrastructure Development Committee Deepak Bahadur Singh tabled the committee’s annual report, 2080.

Chairperson Singh shared that some development projects have fallen victims to political reasons, making their outcome uncertain.

There are several problems such as transfer of employees with the change of minister, not allowing the employees engaged in the program to work in the same project until completion, and political interference in project works.

Likewise, Chairperson of the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee Amar Bahadur Thapa tabled the annual report of the committee for the year 2081 BS.

In the meeting, Speaker Devraj Ghimire informed the House that the names of the members in the implementation of the state directive principles, policies and responsibilities under the joint committee, and monitoring and evaluation committee have been changed.

The next meeting of the Parliament will be held at 1 pm on August 14.

The government has approved a plan of action for overall reforms in the civil aviation sector. 

A meeting of the Council of Ministers on August 12 also approved the plan of action on the operation of Gautam Buddha International Airport and Pokhara International Airport, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung said on Tuesday at a news conference at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. 

The Cabinet meeting appointed Ramesh Acharya of Dhading district to the post of General Manager of Food Management and Trading Company Limited and Prakash Prasad Pokharel of Ilam district as the General Manager of Nepal Transit and Warehousing Company Limited.

Minister Gurung, who is also the government spokesperson, said that the Cabinet meeting appointed Dr Rewati Raman Poudel, Dr Yamuna Ghale, Dr Reshma Shrestha and Jagat Bahadur Deuja as the members of the Federal Land Utilization Council. 

Similarly, the meeting has approved the participation of Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya in the 12th Conference on South Asian Election Management to be held from August 13-16 in Bhutan.

Furthermore, the meeting has approved the loan assistance of USD 110 million to be received from the Asian Development Bank for irrigation projects and formed a panel under the leadership of a joint secretary at the Finance Ministry to hold talks on receiving US Dollars 15 million in grants.

Likewise, the meeting approved the resignation tendered by two first-class officers, Indu Bikram Joshi and Komal Prasad Dhamal, of the Civil Service.

Lawmakers have expressed concern over 'unsafe' aviation service, drawing the attention of the government to make civil aviation safe.

During an emergency hour of today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, lawmaker Sobita Gautam stressed the need of formulating laws to make the country's aviation sector safe immediately if needed.

“A serious problem has been seen in the country's aviation sector. All bodies concerned are requested to make this sector safe. Let’s immediately formulate laws making the aviation sector systematic and safe,” she mentioned.

Sharing that air and road travel has become unsafe in recent periods, lawmaker Bina Lama drew the government's attention towards making it safe. 

Similarly, lawmaker Birendra Mahato drew the government's attention towards the incident of the disappearance of Arun Sharma (20) of Kalyanpur-3 in Siraha district for the past 35 days from Kathmandu.

He said Tarai settlements are at the risk of encroachment of rivers, demanding construction of embankments.

Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Md. Golam Sarwar called on Minister for Foreign Affairs Arzu Rana Deuba at the latter’s office in Singh Durbar today.

During the meeting, they discussed the current state of regional cooperation in SAARC and revitalizing this forum in the shared interests of Member States, the Ministry stated.

On the occasion the SAARC Secretary General congratulated Rana on the assumption of important responsibility as the Foreign Minister and the Chair of the SAARC Council of Ministers.

The two dignitaries discussed ongoing initiatives in SAARC, forward movement, and upcoming meetings, according to the SAARC Secretariat.