In the parliamentary system, parliamentary committees are called mini parliaments. When the Parliament is not in session, it is the parliamentary committee that holds the government accountable for matters of public importance and monitors the government's actions. But in the Karnali State Assembly, the parliamentary committee itself has reached a state of collapse.
Since the committees have been without leadership for a long time, there have been comments that the committees have failed to hold the provincial government accountable . Parliamentary Committees in Karnali State Assembly have been leaderless for seven months . Three of the four committees here are leaderless. According to the Secretariat of the State Assembly, Public Accounts Committee, Finance and Natural Resources Committee and Social Development Committee are without a chairman . There are currently four bills pending in the committee. Due to lack of leadership of the committee, the process of discussion on the bill has not started. Kalyani Khadka, Member of Parliament of the United Samajwadi Party, said that the state government's arbitrariness has increased because the committees are not active.
'Even though the House is closed, the committees should be active, but with us, the work of the committees is also closed, the government has also acted as they please, there are no regulatory bodies.' The saying is . She alleged that the state government has made the committee leaderless. "Chief Minister, when he was in the opposition, he used to search for the government in the parliament, the intelligent people would solve the problems of the people themselves, he used to ridicule the government many times in the parliament, saying, 'The government is only focused on visits and visual observation.'" story -break Public Accounts Committee since October 2081, Social Development Committee since July 2081 and Finance and Natural Resources Committee since May 2081 without leadership are . Chairman of Public Accounts Jeet Bahadur Malla has resigned, while Chairman of Social Development Ghanshyam Bhandari and Chairman of Finance and Natural Resources Committee Durg Bahadur Rawat have become leaders without leadership. It is said that if the committees do not have leadership, the activities of the ministries and agencies under it, such as evaluating policies and programs, resource mobilization, management and other similar activities and giving necessary instructions to the relevant agencies, submitting annual reports with appropriate comments, recommendations and instructions, etc., have been stopped.
CPN Maoist Center MP Vindaman Bista said that committee meetings could not be held due to lack of leadership. He said, "The minister could have made the provincial government responsible by studying what steps are being taken by the provincial government to fulfill the government assurances given from time to time in the meeting of the assembly or in the relevant thematic committee". But that has not happened.''
former state assembly member platform president Dal Rawal said that the parliamentary committee will do the work of the parliament. He said, 'Regular business, matters that come up should be discussed, committees should be more active than the parliament,' he said, 'The committees should be active and the leadership of the parliament should pay attention to select the leadership.' ; Rawal opined that since the speaker is the daughter of the parliament, it should be facilitated to select the leadership in consultation with the leaders of the parties represented in the state assembly.
