The government has moved forward with the process of renting out 'specific public structures' built with government funds and donor grants to the private sector. In the first phase, the government is going to lease Dharahara, International Convention Center at Baneshwar, Sunrise Assembly Hall at Godavari, International Assembly Hall and Exhibition Center at Butwal and Damak View Tower at Jhapa.

The cabinet meeting passed the 'Special Structure Operation and Management Development Committee (Formation Order)' on November 13, which has been published in the 'Nepal Gazette' on November 3. In the formation order, it is mentioned that the Special Structure Operation and Management Development Committee will "operate and operate the specific structure through contract, rent or other appropriate methods in accordance with prevailing laws". In the schedule of the formation order, the names of 6 specific structures have been specified.  The

formation order also opened the way for leasing other public structures built at government expense. According to the Ministry of Urban Development, the house work has started to lease the structures mentioned in the order. According to an official of the Ministry, continuous discussions are going on between government officials and representatives of the private sector for the purpose of leasing public structures. 

Ex-Secretary Gopinath Mainali says that there may be a plan of 'Swarth Group' behind the process of handing over the lease to the businessmen without operating the physical structures built by spending billions from the state's exchequer. "In the past, government/public land and structures were exploited under the guise of rent and social institutions, now it is an ironic situation that the government cannot bring those lands and structures under control even if it wants," he said, who is also the Land Reforms Secretary. It is being said, but I don't think it will benefit the state in the long term.' 

Earlier, former secretary Mainali said that there was no benefit to the state by giving rent to children, Nepal Trust, and Nepal Tea Development Corporation's land dealers. He said that we should move forward by creating a 'modality' in terms of who and how to operate such structures from the union, state and local levels.  Gopal Sigdel, secretary of the Ministry of Urban Development, said that the role of the private sector in the management work of the

structure is going to be effective. "This will continue to generate income for the government," he said, "It is like a management contract." The private sector can work effectively in the regular maintenance and use of the structure.'' He said that not only the building, but also the structures including the dry port were taken up by the private sector.

In the past, he did not give any response when he was reminded of the situation in the past that the government was unable to return the property when it wanted. Former judge Gauri Bahadur Karki says that the intention of handing over the structures made from government funds to the private sector under the guise of lease is bad. 'Which structures of the leased government have flourished?' Karki, who is also the former president of the special court, said, 'The formation order has been brought with the plan to hand over the national property to the businessmen forever.' He defended the issue of leasing by saying that there is no. "The state should only work on the work that the private sector cannot do and is not effective," he said, "perhaps according to the same principle, structures can be operated on lease. Since I have just come to the ministry, I can only comment on other things.

public structures." The union government did not discuss with the state and local governments when the formation order was brought for the operation. Some have pointed to the conflict between Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Kathmandu Metropolitan Municipality Chief Balendra Shah over the drafting of a law to lease public structures to the private sector. 

 Dharahara was entrusted with the operation and management of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City in 2055. After the reconstruction of the tower destroyed in the devastating earthquake of 2072 reached its final stage, the Metropolitan Corporation announced free parking in that complex from January 2080. Then Oli responded. At that time, Pushpa Kamal Dahal was the Prime Minister. After Oli became the Prime Minister, last July, he instructed to take away the responsibility of Dharahara management from the metropolis and bring it under the union government.

During that time, he commented that "Dharahara does not belong to any metropolis". Currently, Dharahara is being temporarily operated under the Union Government's Ministry of Urban Development. The reconstruction of Dharahara, which started in 2075, has not yet been completed. The contract was signed at a cost of 3 billion 80 million rupees excluding VAT to build the Dharahara. 

The new Baneshwar International Convention Center, which is being used as a parliament building, was built in the year 2050. The center has been built with a grant of about 1 billion rupees from China and an investment of about 1.5 million rupees from the government of Nepal. In order to lease the center, the government has canceled the order for the formation of the International Conference Center Development Committee and brought a separate 'Special Structure Operation and Management Committee (formation order)'. 

The land occupied by the center is 175 ropani on paper, but now it is limited to 153 ropani after the road expansion. This center was given to the government by the development committee to operate as a parliament building from May 2065 with an annual rent of 150 crores. Only 1 thousand 44 people can fit in the big hall of the center. "While there is a way to use the conference center as a parliament building in the long term, building a structure by spending a large amount of government money in the Singha Durbar complex shows how the government is more interested in spending unnecessarily than saving money," said former secretary Mainali. 

Prime Minister Oli has already inaugurated the 18-storey Damak View Tower with a height of 72 meters built on a 5 bigha land in Damak, Jhapa. Oli himself laid the foundation stone of 'View Tower' on June 27, 2076 when he was the Prime Minister. There was an agreement to build 'View Tower' at a cost of 1 billion 56 million 14 lakh 39 thousand. A public question was raised that there was no need to build such a 'bhimkaya structure' in Oli's constituency. 

In Butwal, the foundation stone was laid on February 26, 2075, with an area of ​​12,800 square meters and a capacity of 520 stalls and a capacity of 10,000 people at a time. The contract was made at a cost of 1 billion 150 million 567 thousand rupees, but the construction was completed after 2 years from the stipulated time with an increase in the cost. "Butwal International Assembly Hall" with a capacity of 2,782 people has been built in Butwal at a cost of 1.3 billion 3 lakh rupees. Inaugurated on August 11, 2079, the construction of this assembly hall was started without making a blueprint for operation and management. 

The Sunrise Assembly Hall in Lalitpur's Godavari has a capacity of 3,000 seats. This hall built at a cost of 800 million 27 million 16 thousand was inaugurated by Prime Minister Oli in Baisakh 2078. Sunrise Hall was in operation since June 2078 through the International Conference Center Development Committee. Out of the land taken as compensation for the assembly hall, 100 ropani 1 anna 3 paisa land has been encroached upon. 

In the past, government and physical structures have been at the mercy of businessmen. Under the pressure and influence of self-interested groups, the government leased the land of Naxal-based children's temple to Brihaspati Vidyasadan for 89 years, which is still under investigation. On the other hand, when trying to recover the damage to the state, on the contrary, the party taking the lease went to the case by making the government mechanism itself the defendant.

It has been made public that the land brought to the Nepal Trust in the name of the late Raja Birendra and his family in the interest of the government has been given to the private sector including Yeti Holdings under the guise of lease. While it is stated in rule 3 of the Nepal Trust Regulations, 2065 that the property of the trust can be used in the educational, academic and health sectors, the Council of Ministers amended it in October 2076 and expanded it to ``apart from educational, academic, tourism, commercial and health''. 

There is a provision that the secretary of the Ministry of Urban Development will be the chairman of the "Special Structure Operation and Management Development Committee" which will be formed according to the formation order brought by the government. Joint Secretary of Ministry of Economy, Home, Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and Urban Development, Director General of Urban Development and Building Construction Department, Chairman or Representative of Federation of Nepal Industry and Commerce and Chairman Member of Hotel Association of Nepal and Executive Director Member Secretary of Development Committee.  According to the

formation order, apart from operating a specific structure through contract, rent or other suitable methods, based on the nature of the specific structure, conducting national and international meetings, conferences, seminars, seminars, cultural programs or organizing other fairs, exhibitions and charging for services, such The right to maintain, control, maintain and protect the movable/immovable property of the structure is prescribed. The committee also has the jurisdiction to approve the policies, plans and programs submitted to the committee, to make specific structures economically self-sufficient, to suggest to the Nepal government for the long-term management of specific structures, and to do necessary work so that the basic physical structure of specific structures and the approved master plan are not changed. is There was no provision for leasing such structures in the previous International Conference Center Development Committee formation order.