Kathmandu, March 5 ,, Parliamentary Hearing Committee has approved the name of proposed chairpersons of four commissions.
Today’s meeting of the PHC unanimously approved the name of proposed chairpersons of the four commissions—National Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission, National Inclusive Commission, Madhesi Commission and Tharu Commission.
The Constitutional Council had recommended former Secretary Balananda Poudel as the chair of National Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission, former Secretary Shantaraj Subedi as chair of National Inclusive Commission, Dr Bijay Kumar Dutta as chair of the Madhesi Commission and Bishnu Prasad Chaudhary as chair of Tharu Commission and forwarded their names to PHC for parliamentary hearing.
PHC President Laxman Lal Karna said that the PHC approved the names of four proposed chairs after acquiring information about their qualification, interest, thinking, concept and action plan.
Lawmakers of the main opposition party, Nepali Congress, who are in the PHC, remained absent in today’s meeting, expressing dissatisfaction towards Constitutional Council’s move of recommending the name of office-bearers of the commission in absence of opposition party leaders.
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