While the home work of drafting a law to provide lifelong benefits to ex-specialized officials is going on, the bill containing provisions to rein in the trend of distribution of financial support by quick decision from the Council of Ministers has been stalled for three months. As the top leaders of the ruling party disagreed with the amendment made by the parliamentary sub-committee, the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority did not proceed with the third amendment bill, which said that the financial support distributed by the Council of Ministers was not included in the policy decision.

Under the State Order and Good Governance Committee, the sub-committee led by Congress MP Hridayram Thani had agreed on the policy decisions in the bill and submitted a report on December 4. The anti-corruption bill submitted along with the report has been passed by both houses of the Federal Parliament and has been approved by the President. The sub-committee agreed to include a provision in the Authority Bill that 'decisions made for the benefit, convenience or benefit of a particular person or organization are not policy-based unless they are equally applicable to the general public according to the law. 

A member of the committee said that Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Congress Chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba disagreed that any financial assistance given by the decision of the Council of Ministers could attract corruption cases if the Act on Authority is amended according to the report of the sub-committee. "Leaders argue that by keeping such a provision, the door to immediate assistance by the Council of Ministers will be closed even in the event of a natural disaster," he said, "If all the powers are given to the authority, the prime minister's main argument is how the state will run." 

The Chairman of the State Administration Committee, Ramhari Khatiwada, informed that the issue is being discussed in the mechanism of the two ruling parties. According to him, the authority bill was also discussed in the mechanism meeting held on Friday night at the Prime Minister's residence, Baluwatar, but no conclusion was reached. "Not only the provisions related to the distribution of financial support, but also the topic of making the authority powerful so that the executive cannot work, it is necessary to resolve the issue of theoretically how appropriate it is," he said. 

Chairman Khatiwada argued that the main reason for the suspension of the Authority Bill was the lack of definition of the policy decision. He said that the trend of giving arbitrary facilities to pre-specialized officials by taking a sudden decision from the Council of Ministers should be stopped immediately. Although many times trying to enact a law regarding the facilities to be given to the former special officials, due to the fact that they are becoming controversial, the Council of Ministers has decided to provide the facilities. It is not right to always give facilities to pre-specified officials from the Council of Ministers. It should be controlled, the existing facility should also be reduced," he said. 

Khatiwada, chairman of the State Arrangements Committee, said that the main question now is whether to create a situation where the executive cannot work by making the authority powerful. He said that since the authority interferes in the transfer and promotion of attractive and important agencies, it is also necessary to discuss the issue of stopping such a trend. There is no dispute about strengthening the authority as a constitutional commission. But the authority should be able to intervene in all areas, but there should not be a situation where the executive should be afraid that even if he does something, there will be a case of corruption.' 

subcommittee coordinator Congress MP Thani said that the government has the right to enact a separate law if there is any objection to the interpretation of the bill as the decision of the cabinet to give financial assistance is not a policy. The government should make a separate law for the people and organizations of which sector should be given assistance. Our main concern is that the taxes paid by common citizens should not be misused. It is wrong to stop the bill when the system is kept accordingly,'' he said. Now they are worried that they will be taken to the ventilator.' 

Congress General Minister Gagan Kumar Thapa has said that the practice of giving as much facilities and money as needed to former special officials should be controlled by making a law. He said that a law should be made to stop random distribution of money from the state fund. "What the government has to say now is that I will enact such a law, from that I will give the minimum security that the state must give to the president, prime minister, minister, general, speaker of the assembly, apart from that I will stop the long-standing practice of giving as much money as I want by decision of the cabinet," said Thapa in a public program held in Panchthar on Saturday. 

Thani says that if the provision proposed by the sub-committee is included in the authority bill, the random distribution of financial assistance will be stopped by the cabinet. He has been publicly objecting to the fact that the bill passed by the sub-committee representing all parties has been stalled for three months. The sub-committee consisted of Raghuji Pant from UML, Hitraj Pandey from Maoist, Chanda Karki from RSVP, Wise Tamang from RPP, Rajendra Pandey from United Socialist Party, Ashok Rai from JSP and Sarvendra Nath Shukla from LOSPA. 

According to a minister, the Prime Minister also wants a general amendment to the point added in the bill, "any decision made in relation to public procurement except in the case where the decision is made by the Council of Ministers and by entering into the authority of such officer or body or exceeding the jurisdiction of such officer or body". "After an agreement is reached between the two parties, the bill will come to the committee," he said.