Report on TRC Bill tabled at Parliament

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.