The Lumbini Provincial Assembly has held only 21 meetings in the span of almost a year. Of these, 17 meetings were for the budget for the current fiscal year.
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The fifth meeting of the seventh session of the Lumbini Provincial Assembly is scheduled to be held on Sunday. Provincial Assembly Secretary Durlabh Kumar Pun issued a notice on Friday informing that the meeting would be held.
The seventh (winter) session of the Lumbini Provincial Assembly began on Mangsir 8. The first meeting on Mangsir 8 ended with an exchange of greetings and reading out the letters from the provincial chief. However, it took almost 2 and a half months to hold the second meeting.
In the second meeting held on Magh 13, the government presented the Dalit Rights Bill, the Biocidal Pesticide Management and Regulation Bill, and the Lumbini Research and Training Institute Bill, which was withdrawn by the provincial chief.
The third meeting held on Magh 14 and the fourth meeting held on Magh 20 had completed the theoretical discussions on the three bills and sent them to the relevant thematic committees for clause-wise discussions. All three bills are currently under discussion in the thematic committees. Apart from that, no further meetings have been held since Magh 20.
Two months after the fourth meeting, Speaker Tula Ram Gharti Magar informed Provincial Assembly Secretary Durlabh Kumar Pun that the fifth meeting will be held on Sunday as per Sub-rule (3) of Rule 12 of the Provincial Assembly Rules 2079 BS.
He said that the possible agenda of the meeting to be held on Sunday has also been decided. ‘There is a possible agenda for the Provincial Assembly members to speak on contemporary issues at a special time, the bill to establish and operate Lumbini Pragya Pratishthan and the bill to amend the District Assembly and District Coordination Committee Operation Act, 2075 BS to be sent to the concerned committee for clause-wise discussion,’ he said. ‘If additional bills are registered by the government, they will be presented in the next meeting.’
The Lumbini Provincial Assembly has been without work for almost a year as the Lumbini Provincial Government has not been able to ‘do business’. Despite its main responsibility of discussing and passing bills, making laws, and discussing important issues of public concern, and formulating policies, the provincial assembly has become ineffective due to the government's slow pace.
The Lumbini Provincial Assembly has held only 21 meetings in almost a year. Of these, 17 meetings were held to discuss and pass the budget for the current fiscal year. The first meeting of the sixth session of the Lumbini Provincial Assembly was held on Baisakh 31, 2082. After that, 17 meetings held until Asad 18 presented, discussed, and passed the budget for the current fiscal year. The sixth session, which was adjourned after the budget was passed on Asad 18, was ended by Province Chief Krishna Bahadur Gharti on the recommendation of the government from the night of Bhadra 31.
