Negotiations are underway to finalize the agreement reached after repeated discussions between Home Minister Sudhan Gurung and the protesting meter-billing victims in Nijgadh, Bara.
We use Google Cloud Translation Services. Google requires we provide the following disclaimer relating to use of this service:
This service may contain translations powered by Google. Google disclaims all warranties related to the translations, expressed or implied, including any warranties of accuracy, reliability, and any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement.
The talks between the meter badge victims and the government are set to begin shortly.
Representatives of the meter badge victims have arrived at the Prime Minister's Office in Singha Durbar for the talks.
Nirg Naveen, a member of the meter badge victims' negotiation team who is waiting for the government team for the talks, informed Kantipur.
After Home Minister Sudhan Gurung and the agitating meter badge victims reached an agreement after repeated discussions in Nijgadh, Bara, the talks are set to be held today to finalize it.
According to Nirg Naveen, today's meeting will attempt to reach an agreement through concrete discussions on the agreement reached informally yesterday.
According to the agreement reached so far, after the Council of Ministers declares meter badge a serious economic crime, the process of declaring fraudulent documents related to it, including fake certificates, sight bonds, compulsory checks, and forced land passes, as illegal will begin.
To provide a legal basis for this, the government has agreed to bring a 'Special Act on the Control of Meter Badge Crimes'.
The draft agreement, which is expected to be prepared within three months, includes a clear definition of metered interest transactions, identification of victims, compensation, return of seized land, expansion of easy access to institutional credit, and bringing the system of private moneylenders into the legal ambit.
Home Minister Gurung reached Nijgadh with the victims who had walked from Janakpur to Kathmandu and reached the agreement.
Immediately after that, the government held a cabinet meeting and decided to form a negotiation team under the coordination of Pushkar Sapkota, Secretary to the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.
The negotiation team includes joint secretaries of the Home, Land, and Finance Ministries.
The metered interest victims, who have been walking since Asad 25, have been staying in Nijgadh, Bara, for four days. There are about 200 of them.
