Kathmandu, February 26:

In a written explanation to the Supreme Court, the Parliamentary Secretariat today claimed there is no need to promulgate specific law to ensure right to employment as guaranteed by the Interim Constitution of Nepal, 2007.

The secretariat has also claimed that there are already several acts in effect in this regard. Joint-secretary Tek Prasad Dhungana submitted the written explanation to the apex court on behalf of the secretariat responding to a public interest litigation filed by Prem Bahadur Khadka, who had moved the apex court seeking its order to the government to promulgate act to implement the fundamental rights guaranteed by Article 18 of the Interim Constitution.

The petitioner had claimed that the Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet and the parliament had done nothing to implement the constitutionally guaranteed right.The secretariat, in its explanation, has claimed that the government has already put in place Foreign Employment Act, 2007, and Civil Service Act, 2007, Parliament Secretariat Act 2007, Working Journalist Act-2007 and has amended Nepal Medical Service Act, 1997, University Act and Education Act to ensure employment to the citizens.

The secretariat also claimed that the government is working to make broader the sectors providing employment to the citizens and thereby ensure the right to employment.

This is a purely political issue and the apex court should not intervene, claimed the secretariat.