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The government has submitted two bills to the Parliament to organize the service providers and regulatory bodies in Nepal's air sector.
In Tuesday's House of Representatives meeting, Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister Badri Prasad Pandey submitted Bill-2081 to establish and regulate the Nepal Air Service Authority and Bill-2081 to amend and unify the laws related to the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority.
Minister Pandey said that the government has introduced a bill to make Nepal's civil aviation service reliable according to international standards and to build an airport with modern facilities.
Earlier, the cabinet meeting held on 5th December 2081 had decided to submit both the bills to the parliament. In Nepal, since the last decade and a half, the discussion of separating the service provider and the regulatory body in the aviation sector has started, but the work has not been completed. Minister Pandey has advanced the bill to split the Civil Aviation Authority into separate service providers and regulatory bodies.
In the past, even though the government presented similar bills in the parliament, those bills were not able to move forward. In the 59th report of the Office of the Auditor General, it was mentioned that the authority is not effective in regulating the decisions made by itself as a service provider, as the authority is working both as a service provider and as a regulator.
The authority established after the promulgation of the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority Act in 2053 has been providing both regulatory and service provider services of air aviation. Minister Pandey said that there is a situation where there is a need to separate and move forward as there is a conflict of interests when the same organization also conducts business.
'15 years ago, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) suggested that Nepal's airspace should be separated as a regulator and a service provider. In May 2009, ICAO's Universal Safety Oversight Audit Report covered the issue of Nepal Civil Aviation Authority playing a dual role of regulator and service provider,' Minister Pandey said, 'Government has come to the conclusion that regulating and service agencies should be made different as the same agency provides services and regulates.
