The session of both houses of the Federal Parliament, which is becoming a matter of prestige, has been called for January 18. The government has decided the date from Monday's cabinet meeting in view of the opposition parties criticizing the government for delaying the regular exercise and warning to advance the process for the special session.

With the commencement of the session, many topics that have been in discussion for the past four months will get a chance to enter the House. Mainly, this session is expected to finalize important bills pending for a long time and fulfill the responsibility of establishing its activeness in law making.

That is, the winter session, known as the Bill session, should become a special Bill session. That is why the parliamentary daily after January 18 has extra importance. While formulating the many functions of the House, some points are prepared - making laws, forming the government, guiding the government on contemporary issues, among others.

Parliament is also known as Legislature or Legislature, so the work of making laws can be considered as the most important. But in recent years, Parliament has been criticized for being indifferent to its main responsibility of making laws. 

Even though the National Assembly is an undivided house, if the term of the current House of Representatives is taken as a basis, the weak part of law making is exposed. For example, the number of bills registered and approved by the House in the last two years is 17, and seven of them are related to the budget. In other words, the remaining 10 bills other than mandatory are the achievements of the last two years. In order to speed up such a slow pace, parliamentarians should show proactivity in the upcoming session.

There are currently 20 bills pending in the House. Among them, there is a bill related to the strengthening of federalism. The 'Bill to regulate the formation, operation and conditions of service of the federal civil service', which is considered essential for administrative restructuring according to federalism, is currently under discussion in the State Order and Good Governance Committee.

Provincial governments have kept employees as one of the main requirements for the real practice of federalism and to provide services according to the wishes of the people, but the law has not been made. The next session should prioritize this bill. Similarly, the 'Bill to Amend and Consolidate Laws on School Education' related to school education with the aim of adapting it to Nepal's government structure is under discussion in the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee.

Similarly, there are bills related to areas such as corruption, school education, water resources, electricity, electronic business, media council, etc. Every bill has importance in its own field, so the MP/Parliament should be sensitive to it.

Even as the time for convening the Parliament session is approaching, the government has introduced half a dozen ordinances. Among which, amending some Nepal Acts related to cooperatives, amending some Nepal Acts related to good governance promotion and public service delivery, amending some Nepal Acts related to economic procedures and financial responsibility (first amendment), privatization (first amendment), economic and business environment improvement and investment enhancement and There are ordinances to amend some Nepal Acts related to land.

The government has brought the ordinance out of necessity. However, it has been criticized for being interested in passing the Ordinance by circumventing Parliament. Now those ordinances will be submitted in the first session of Parliament. There is an obligation to pass the replacement bill within 60 days. MPs have to exercise their discretion over the

ordinance. At the same time, parliamentarians, who are primarily responsible for making laws, should be able to discourage the government from going down the road of ordinances. For that, they should be able to establish their active role in law making. The faster lawmakers can turn bills into law, the sooner that role will be established.

Constitutionally, we have adopted a parliamentary system. But the effective role of the Parliament has not been established in many aspects such as making laws, introducing contemporary issues to the Parliament and making the government accountable. In order to make the traditional parliamentary system more progressive, various provisions have been added to the constitution.

However, from the point of view of activity, there is no fundamental difference between the parliamentary system after 2048 and the present. In the current situation where there is a government in partnership with major personalities of the parliamentary system like Congress and UML, they should try to make this system result-oriented.