Cabinet meeting decides to propose second FP session

KATHMANDU: Today's Cabinet meeting has decided to recommend to the President to call a second session of the Federal Parliament on May 6.

Budget session of the House of Representatives and National Assembly will begin once President Bidya Devi Bhandari calls the second FP session.

The meeting that took place at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers in Singha Durbar also decided to declare the newly-inaugurated Birgunj-based Integrated Check Post (ICP) a custom zone, and publish it in Nepal Gazette, Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota was quoted as saying in Rastriya Samachar Samiti.

Decision was also taken to give permission in principle to the Minister of Home Affairs to device a Bill related to inland peace and order.

Likewise, the meeting also took a decision to appoint Joint Attorney of the judicial service Rama Devi Parajuli as member of Foreign Employment Tribunal.