KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 22
Rastriya Swatantra Party Member of Parliament Sumana Shrestha has demanded that the government should immediately publish the report of the 'High-Level Investigation Commission on Nepal Children's Organisation'. NCO is widely known as Bal Mandir globally since 1963.
While speaking in the House of Representatives meeting today, MP Sumana said that the government should immediately publish the report of the commission formed to investigate the matter related to providing the 28 ropani land of Bal Mandir to eminent persons and families by the officials there.
She mentioned that she had been informed that the Commission had suggested to take legal action against the officials who took possession of the NCO and misused its movable/ immovable property, and informed that there should be no delay in taking action against the culprits by making the report public. MP Shrestha warned the government to monitor the misuse of 29 ropani land of Nepal Lalit Kala Pratisthan.
About 360 children are being protected in different NCO's children homes.
Earlier, the House of Representatives on February 15 endorsed the proposal to consider the bill to revise the Food Purity and Quality Act, allowing lawmakers to register amendments to it in three days.
The very next day, Sumana Shrestha, a member of the House, with the support from the members of her secretariat created a virtual platform - Google Docs - seeking feedback. She had taken to social media to reach out to the public.
Her team received over four dozen suggestions, which Shrestha incorporated in the amendments submitted to the Parliament Secretariat. She has registered a 34-point amendment to the bill.
Even before the bill was presented in the House, members of Shrestha's secretariat had undertaken a study on their own on food purity and quality.
"We studied different aspects of the bill so that we could register appropriate amendments," Shrestha told the Post.
The research outcome and the public feedback were the basis of her amendment to the Act.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 23, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
