Doing nothing throughout the year and rushing to finish the budget at the last moment is called 'unsatisfied development'. In order to get a glimpse of this, the parliamentarians of the thematic committee in the Sudurpaschim Province Assembly have gone on a 'tour' at the expense of the government. As Jagannath himself said, the committee members have been going around by allocating the budget under the title of study tour. According to the Secretariat of the Provincial Assembly, each committee will be allocated up to 7 lakh per year under the title of study tour.

Currently, the members of the social development committee led by MP Dharmaraj Pathak are visiting Kathmandu. Economic Development and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ghanshyam Chaudhary along with members are returning to Rara in Karnali.

Legislation and Provincial Affairs Committee officials have recently returned to Chisapani and Tikapur in Kailali. Chairman of Public Accounts Committee Akkal Bahadur Rawal and some members secretly reached India's Naintal last week under the name of a similar visit and it became controversial after being criticized.

There are five thematic committees in the Sudurpaschim Province Assembly. Apart from the special committee that was formed this year, it seems that officials of other committees have been going on a tour in the name of study tour in the month of June at government expense. Among those who are currently visiting, the Social Development Committee team is currently in Kathmandu observing, interacting and meeting the activities of various committees.

According to Chairman Dharmaraj Pathak, there was a meeting and exchange of learning with the officials of the three thematic committees of the House of Representatives, the Speaker, and the Speaker of the National Assembly. "We have arranged a meeting with the President and the Prime Minister," said Chairman Pathak. Chairman Pathak along with nine members Ombikram Bhat, Kailash Chaudhary, Khusiram Dagaura Tharu, Jankidevi Kunwar, Jhapta Bahadur Saund, Tulsi Devkota, Maya Pant and Shivraj Bhatt and four employees of the state assembly are participating in the visit. 

Chairman Pathak said earlier that since there were other works such as budget preparation in the meantime, he went out for study observation as it seemed like a free time at the moment. It's been two months since I became the chairman, in the past and even now, I don't care about what committees are doing and where they are traveling. Since this is the right time for our committee, we are visiting for good results.

Economic Development and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ghanshyam Chaudhary and members Khagraj Bhatt, Rajendra Singh Rawal, Chakra Bahadur Malla, Tara Prasad Joshi, Naresh Kumar Shahi,  Lalita Sunar and Sivasingh Oli are participating . According to Shivsingh Oli, a member of the said committee who went on a study tour of the parliamentary activities of Karnali Province on June 5th, he reached Surkhet and met and interacted with the officials of the Finance and Natural Resources Committee of the Karnali Province Assembly. After that, the tour team reached Rara via Calicut. They have posted various pictures of their travels on social media.

"On Monday, there is a plan to visit Dailekh's fuel extraction site and return," MP Oli said. After the study tour, the achievements of the students should be adopted in their states too. Junakumari Dani, a member of the Legislation and State Affairs Committee, said that the committee was disappointed by visiting Chisapani and Tikapur in Kailali. But there were only a few MPs on the visit. All were not involved .   

Speaker Bhim Bahadur Bhandari admits that the trend of visiting in June is sending the wrong message. "It is not wrong for parliamentarians to go on study tours to follow the good learnings of different provinces, and to adopt good practices from other places in their own provinces," Speaker Bhandari said. It would be good if the committees correct the schedules of the next year's visits.