Kathmandu, August 22

The prime minister can now hold Cabinet meeting from outside the country through video conferencing, using information technology. A Cabinet meeting decided to amend the Government of Nepal (Transaction of Business) Regulations-2008, allowing the PM to hold Cabinet meetings using information technology from outside the country.

The prime minister can now hold Cabinet meeting from outside the country through video conferencing, using information technologies.

A Cabinet meeting decided to amend the Government of Nepal (Transaction of Business) Regulations-2008, allowing the PM to hold Cabinet meetings using information technologies from outside the country. Till now, the PM could hold Cabinet meetings only inside the country.

The government took this decision following Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s deteriorating health condition which requires him to spend time abroad for medical check-up.

Oli was off to Singapore today for follow-up check-up. According to his secretariat, he will be in Singapore for at least eight to ten days.

Spokesperson for the government and Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gokul Baskota today told mediapersons that PM Oli was fit and fine and he was just going for follow-up because he was taking a new medicine.

Earlier this month, Oli went to Singapore for check-up and started to take new medicine. “The side-effects of the medicine will be checked during the follow-up,” he said.

The Cabinet meeting also appointed Hari Saran Pudasaini as consulate general of the Consulate General of Nepal in Guangzhou, China.

The government also transferred more than a dozen secretaries. Replying to media persons on the transfer of secretaries, Minister Baskota said the transfers would not impede governance or works of ministries. “Although the secretaries have signed performance evaluation agreements with the ministers at the ministries, the government can change while the bureaucracy is a permanent structure. So, the signed agreement between the secretaries and the ministries would be part of governance, and it would not impact the government in relation to their work,” he said. He also said the government could transfer any employee on the basis of their requirement.

Minister Baskota also said monarchy in Nepal was a thing of the past and those who were doing politics in the name of the king would become extinct as the dinosaurs.

Commenting on a recent incident in which former prince Paras Shah had misbehaved with a police personnel, Minister Baskota said there were no one above the constitution. “Those who do wrong things will be punished,” he said.