HELLO NEPAL

He is my inspiration, true friend, motivator, a good teacher and many more albeit I am not his disciple. You will find him at the entrance of my home. He quietly bless me and my family and the visiting guests. This orchid happily blooms every year right in-front of him.

The Himalayan Times 29 March 2018 Provincial govts in fix Nepal has now entered into federal structure. All the provincial governments are now in place and have started their business despite facing many difficulties. Local level governments are struggling to meet the expectations of rural people. The Oli led federal government is still negotiating with Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum-Nepal (SSF-N) and Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-N) to bring them in the Cabinet. The constitution amendment has been their one of the major demands before joining the government. It is yet to be seen whether they will stick to their demands or join the government for the ministerial berths as in the past. Recently, Prime Minister Oli held a meeting with the seven chief minsters, principle secretaries and chief attorneys to brief them about the official policy of the federal government about the development, its internal affairs and international relations “PM holds meeting with chief mini

The Himalayan Times 22 March 2018 Minister takes right step The Oli led government has been expanded for the third time. Nevertheless, the government is yet to take its full shape. It was widely expected that the Federal Socialist Forum- Nepal (FSF-N) would join the government during the third Cabinet expansion. However, it did not happen owing to FSF-N’s stand for written agreement on the constitution amendment before joining the leftist government. Likewise, the Ratriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-N) was also considering joining the Oli-led government if the government agreed to amend the constitution beforehand as per its demands. Surprisingly, both the FSF-N and RJP-N were dead against PM K.P.Oli before the provincial and federal elections as Oli had taken a firm stand against constitution amendment. There is a provision that all ministers and bureaucrats are mandated to make their properties public. However, judges were, until now, not obligated to do so. Newly

The Himalayan Times 15 March 2018 Hope for the best Finally, Nepal has got a stable and powerful government under the premiership of CPN-UML Chairman K.P.Oli.   He was able to secure 208 votes in the 275-member House of Representatives on Sunday, which was more than two-thirds majority, to win the vote of confidence. The UML and CPN-MC had fought the provincial and federal elections under the left-alliance.   Surprisingly, both Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum-Nepal (SSF-N) and Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-N), who were critical of Oli for his stand against the amendment of constitution, also supported him. It seemed that the left-alliance’s slogan “Stability for the prosperity” put forward during the elections had nicely worked to attract the voters towards them. People were desperate to see a stable government in place for long time that would lead the country towards prosperity. The real hard time for the Oli led government has started now albeit it has got the man

The Himalayan Times 8 March 2018 Budget in limbo Nepal has now entered into the federal structure after the completion of three tiers of elections. This situation demands several changes in the bureaucratic and financial management systems that were in place for several decades. Among them, the assignment of existing human resources to the three levels of government, appropriation of annual budget and identification of development programmes and projects to be implemented by the federal, provincial and local level governments have been herculean task for the federal government. The traditional practice of fiscal budget formulation and presentation to the Parliament by the central government was normally done towards the end of June of every fiscal year. In the absence of local level governments for the last almost 20 years, the Districts Development Committees (DDC) used to be a focal point for incorporating all the district level sectoral programmes and forwar