The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives has directed the government to appoint the vice-chairperson of the Social Welfare Council through open competition.

A meeting of the Committee held in Singha Durbar on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens to appoint a person for the post of vice-chairperson of the Social Welfare Council through open competition.

Since there are old laws in the Social Welfare Council, the meeting directed the Ministry to formulate a new law and present it to the Parliament and conduct a study on 50, 000 non-governmental organizations and prepare a clear policy based on the rationale of the country.

The meeting has also directed the government to issue a white paper about the situation of the use of all kinds of the physical property of the Social Welfare Council within three months and present full details of the amount taken by government employees, council employees and office bearers to conduct monitoring in the five years.

Saying that the Social Welfare Council has not been carrying out works in favor of the country, committee member Amresh Kumar Singh, during the meeting, said that a new organization should be formed by scrapping the Council.

While Singh was trying to walk out of the meeting by floating his opinion, Council Board member Sushila KC suggested Singh to leave the meeting hall only after listening to the answer which created a dispute in the meeting.

Following which, President Rishikish Pokharel directed KC to leave the meeting saying that she breached the parliamentary norms and values.