HoR session: Lawmakers draw government’s attention to various issues

Kathmandu: Lawmakers have drawn the government’s attention to various contemporary issues in a session of the House of Representatives (HoR) today,.

Airing views in the lower house session today, Bidya Bhattarai, demanded the government fence the risky zone along the Seti River banks to prevent possible cases of accidents.

Lekhnath Dahal expressed his concern over the deaths of four Indian nationals in a jeep accident on April 12 along the BP Highway. He said that the Highway is overloaded by vehicles as around 10,000 vehicles travel through it despite its capacity of 4,000.

Dahal urged the government to intervene in the situation and take measures for road safety. He also pressed the idea of digging a tunnel under 32 kilometers area of the Highway to reduce the travel hours and the costs.

Likewise, Dr. Toshima Karki demanded a system of enrollment in medical education. Thakur Gaire expressed his concern over Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s statement about ‘the attempts to reverse the system’ that he gave outside the parliament, urging the Prime Minister to put his views on the matter in the parliament.

Metmani Chaudhary called for taking action against people involved in human trafficking while Prem Suwal stressed the need for stemming air pollution in the Kathmandu Valley referring to the federal capital being the most polluted city in the world.

Roshan Karki demanded a solution to the issue of one Satya Devi Thapa of Panchkhal, a kidney patient, whose house has been auctioned by Kumari Bank for failure to pay loans.

Chitra Bahadur KC put his concerns about the decision to allow a private foreign company to verify the national identity card terming the act illegal.

Shyam Kumar Ghimire stated that there was a halt to the construction of the Sindhulimadhi Kamalamai-Katari road due to a forest issue, and demanded a solution.

Meanwhile, the HoR session today passed a condolence motion on the demise of former lawmaker Tejman Tumbahamphe. Tumbahamphe was elected from the Dhankuta constituency on a Nepali Congress ticket in the parliamentary election held in 2015 BS.

Speaker Devraj Ghimire presented the condolence proposal in the meeting and the HoR passed it. Tumbahamphe who played a leading role in the movement for establishing democracy and its reinstatement died on April 7. He was 97.

The HoR meeting paid tribute to the late Tumbahamphe and also observed a minute on the occasion.

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