Government to provide Rs 1 million each to family of people killed in Tinkune incident

The government has decided to provide Rs 1 million each to the family of two people killed in the Tinkine incident. 

A Cabinet meeting held recently decided to provide Rs 1 million to the families of Sabin Maharjan and Suresh Rajak who died in the Tinkune incident on March 28,  Minister for Communications and Information Technology and government spokesperson Prithvi Subba Gurung said. 

Similarly, the government has decided to form a 15-member high-level governance reform commission under the leadership of the Prime Minister. 

Minister Gurung said that the government has decided to give consent to obtain a loan assistance of USD 100 million from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) for the implementation of an Electricity Transmission and Distribution Project and to form a negotiation team under the coordination of the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Finance to finalize the financial agreement related to the loan.

The government has decided to exempt the royalty for the mountaineering team comprising 10 mountaineers from the Indian Army and 13 from the Nepali Army going to climb Mount Kanchenjunga under the 'Joint Indo-Nepal Summit to Mt Kanchenjunga' program.

The Cabinet has decided to approve the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cultural Cooperation between the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal and the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

The government has decided to amend the existing organizational structure and posts of the Supreme Court and its subordinate bodies. 

Minister Gurung shared that a decision has been taken to approve the Foreign Aid Mobilization Policy, 2082, the Public Procurement (Fourteenth Amendment) Regulations, 2082.