KATHMANDU: What could be so frustrating than working without salary for over half-a-year? With Dashain round the corner, Nara Singh Chaudhary, chairperson of the National Inclusive Commission has a bottomline concern: How do I celebrate this year’s Dashain?

Chadhary had written

to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal seeking salary and allowances pending on him and

other members of the commission. Chaudhary said he had to write the letter to the PM after the Ministry of Finance stopped issuing salary and allowances of the members of the commission.

“We tried our best to sought an appointment with the PM but he had no time for that,” he said.

The commission, whose tenure was up to six months as determined by then Maoist-led government, came into being on 13 December, 2008.

The Ministry of Finance has stopped paying

salary citing that the commission’s term has already been expired.

But Chaudhary claimed that commission’s six months tenure should not be counted from the day the cabinet took the decision. “The actual date when the commission started functioning was March, 2009,” he

contended. “I do not even have the money or the fuel,” Chadhary lamented.

Chaudhary and his another office colleague Kishori Shah continue attending their office.