KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 19
House of Representatives Speaker Devraj Ghimire said today that the attention of the legislature had deviated from its function of lawmaking.
Addressing the release ceremony of the Nepal Human Rights Year Book 2023 organised by the Informal Sector Service Centre, Speaker Ghimire said the attention of the Parliament had not gone towards making acts and laws.
He informed that there was need to enact many laws and regulations in the country, but they had not been able to do so.
Speaker Ghimire said there was no fair monitoring of implementation of laws. He said the government was not looking at the Parliament properly.
Speaker Ghimire said, "There are flaws in the process of making acts and laws. Although we have made several laws, it is not possible to monitor the implementation of laws made in our various systems, especially the parliamentary system, in an impartial manner through various committees and methods due to various reasons. The attention of the Parliament has not been drawn towards this and the issue has not being scrutinised properly by the executive."
He further said, "Discrepancies persist between major organs of the state - the executive, judiciary, and legislature. They are not doing their work diligently."
Speaker Ghimire said even though some matters went to the judiciary, there were obstacles in the work. While holding the opinion that there should be coordination between the executive and legislature, he said solutions to the problems seen in the implementation of acts and laws should be found.
"Today, most of the matters are in the hands of the judiciary, but obstacles are being created in the work. All these things are happening as a result of lack of coordination between the executive and the legislature or the kind of role that parliamentarians should play in the Parliament, but are not. Not only that, it is necessary to pay attention to the implementation aspect and find solutions to the problems seen in the implementation part."
A version of this article appears in the print on February 20, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
