Kathmandu, May 16: Six months after the formation of the House of Representatives, i.e. from today Tuesday, the parliamentary committee will be active. Speaker Devraj Ghimire had suggested holding a meeting of all 10 committees so as to convey the message that the parliamentary committees are united in matters of law making and people’s concerns.
The committees include Finance, International relations and tourism, industry and commerce and labor and consumer interest, law, justice and human rights, agriculture, cooperatives and natural resources, women and social affairs, state affairs and good governance, infrastructure development, education, health and information technology and public accounts committee.
The meeting will be chaired by the eldest member of the respective Committee until a chair is elected, according to Dasarath Dhamala, Joint-Spokesperson of the Federal Parliament Secretariat. Most of the committees are made up of around 25 members. The major scope of the committees is to hold discussions on the bill sent by the both houses of the parliament, oversight and monitoring.
It has been reported there has been an agreement between the major political parties on the leadership of the committees. According to the past practice, the main opposition party leads the Public Accounts Committee.
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