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Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has instructed the government bodies including the ministry concerned to promptly resolve the problems related to cooperatives.

The PM issued this directive in the course of the discussions held at Baluwatar this morning with officials of the related bodies, said a press note issued by the PM Secretariat.

The Prime Minister on the occasion said provisions should be made in the Act itself so as to promote the cooperatives as infusing the embryo of socialism and focussed on collectivism and the interests of the lowest section of society. He further added that the cooperatives should be made systematic by adopting immediate and long-term measures.

He instructed the ministry and bodies concerned to carry out the required homework on an immediate and long-term basis for resolving the problems seen in the cooperatives.

Stating that his attention was drawn towards forming an effective regulatory body for the monitoring of cooperatives, PM Dahal directed the existing cooperatives regulatory agencies to present a report, classifying the cooperatives as well-performing, in crisis and bankrupt.

He called for paying attention to the security of the amount kept by depositors in the cooperatives, pointing out the need of taking effective steps in coordination of all the three tiers of the government for this.

Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha, Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Ranjita Shrestha, Chief Secretary of Government of Nepal, Baikuntha Aryal and officials of the related ministries, departments and bodies were present on the occasion.

Leading a Nepali delegation, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is leaving for Uganda tomorrow.

The visit is aimed at attending the 19th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit to be held in Kampala of Uganda on January 19-20. The PM will board the Qatar Airlines' 2:15 am flight for Uganda, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The PM will be accompanied by his daughter Ganga Dahal, Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Prasad Saud, Sewa Lamsal, Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other senior government officials, the Ministry said.

On the first day of the two-day Summit, PM Dahal will address the plenary session on the theme 'Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence'.

On the same day, Dahal will attend the state banquet hosted by the President of Uganda, General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, in honor of the Heads of the delegation from the NAM member states.

In addition to the Summit activities, PM Dahal is slated to hold bilateral meetings with the Head of the States, Head of the Governments, and other dignitaries attending the event.

Foreign Minister Saud has already left here for Uganda on January 15 to participate in the ministerial meeting taking place in Uganda from January 17-18. Preceding the ministerial meeting, the senior officials meeting was held from January 15-16.

Agendas of the Summit include considering the report of the preparatory ministerial meeting, reviewing the progress achieved in the outcome of the 18th NAM Summit held in 2019 and adoption of the Kampala Declaration among others.

Nepal, being a founding member of the NAM, has been actively participating in all NAM Summits. The principle of nonalignment is one of the bedrock principles of Nepal's foreign policy.

PM Dahal is scheduled to return to Kathmandu on January 21.

Following the 19th NAM Summit, the Third South Summit is taking place in Uganda itself from January 21-22 which will be led by Foreign Secretary Lamsal, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Election Commission has directed the government to ensure security arrangements necessary for holding the National Assembly (NA) elections scheduled for January 25 in a cordial atmosphere.

A meeting of the EC today directed the government to make the NA-election related security arrangements in coordination of the Home Ministry in involvement with security agencies.

The government has been urged to consider potential security challenges for voters, election candidates, offices of the election officers, election employees, and for the management of election logistics and in the voting stations and put security arrangements in place accordingly, according to EC assistant spokesperson Shreedhar Panthi.

The EC has set up the offices of the election officers in its province offices in Morang, Dhanusha, Makwanpur, Kaski, Dang, Surkhet and Kailali.  It has sought the security arrangements in those routes using the election voters for visiting polling stations and in their residential areas as well.

Province Assembly members, chairs and vice chairs of rural municipalities, mayors and deputy mayors of municipalities are the voters of NA election.

The EC has directed for coordination hoteliers in the districts where polling centers have been established to facilitate voters with accommodation at their personal expenses and the coordination with the respective District Administration Office during the movement of voters and for the security of polling centers and stations.

It has also urged the district election security committee to deliver actively to ensure the effective and reliable election security arrangements.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has directed the bodies concerned to take measures immediately to stop the inconveniences faced at the airport by abroad-bound Nepalis going on visit visa and taking work permit. He said that complaints of this have been received.

The PM issued this instruction in the course of discussions today with Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha, the Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security Sarat Singh Bhandari, Chief Secretary Dr Baikuntha Aryal and the secretaries of the related ministries.

Stating that complaints have been received of those bearing the visit visa and labor permit facing inconvenience at the airport, the PM has instructed for immediately creating a conducive environment, according to the PM's Private Secretariat. 

"I have heard of the complaint that those going abroad on the visit visa are turned back from the airport citing lack of proper documents, but they are allowed to travel after some days through a 'setting' (meaning in collusion). Please do and get done according to the Immigration Work Procedures in connection with those going abroad on visit visa. Please, stop pestering the people," he said.

The Prime Minister has directed the bodies concerned to conduct awareness programs on foreign employment and visit visa reaching the local levels and to work in favor of the nation and people.