Parliamentary committee to summon CIAA Chief in next meeting

Kathmandu / July 22: The Good Governance and Monitoring Committee of the Legislature-Parliament is summoning the Chief Commissioner and the Commissioners of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) at its meeting on Sunday.

Committee president Mohan Singh Rathour took this decision after the lawmakers in today’s meeting of the committee demanded summoning the CIAA office-bearers including the chief to the committee’s next meeting for holding discussions with them.

“Investigation would be carried out if necessary into the topic of the irregularity related to the designing of the question paper of the Master Level examination, conduction of the examination and checking of the exam answer papers said to be done in the presence of the CIAA representatives at the Kathmandu University, after holding discussions with the CIAA officials on Sunday,” Rathour said.

Lawmakers Akwal Ahamad Saha, Amanlal Modi, Narayan Prakash Saud, Mahesh Acharya, Sushila Nepal, Milan Kumari Rajbanshi, Harkabol Rai, Kripasur Sherpa, Ambar Bahadur Thapa among others had demanded holding discussions on the irregularities in the MBBS entrance examination conducted by the Kathmandu University by calling the CIAA officials to the committee meeting.

Committee secretary Jeev Raj Budhathoki told RSS that the committee in its meeting today held discussions on the topic of the exam irregularity by calling the Kathmandu University officials including Registrar Dr Bhola Thapa, Dean Narendra Bahadur Rana and legal advisor Niranjan Acharya in the meeting.

In the meeting, the University officials stated that they were asked to shelve the question paper which was already prepared and design a new question paper in its place, conduct the examination and check the answer scripts in the very presence of the CIAA representatives,” Budhathoki said.

Govt team seeks time for experts’ advice on Dr KC’s demands

The second round of dialogue held between the government and a team representing Dr Govinda KC at the Health Ministry has been postponed for a few hours.

The meeting which sat at 11 am was postponed for the next round of meeting with a note for the necessity to hold discussion with experts to resolve the stalemate, said Health Secretary Dr Senendra Raj Upreti, who heads the government dialogue team.

“Some topics are very difficult, so we have decided to postpone the meeting as we have seen the necessity to seek suggestions from experts for a substantive conclusion,” the Secretary shared, adding, “Our effort will be to make the next dialogue final.”

Dr Ranjan Kumar Sapkota, Coordinator of the dialogue team representing Dr KC, said the discussion on a major subject could not take place despite a comparative progress.

“We are trying to come close to an agreement; they have asked for time to hold consultation with experts, so we have agreed to hold another dialogue at 7 pm today,” he said.

Both the sides have decided on reaching a conclusion today. The two sides have already held altogether eight hours of meeting.

Dr KC has been on fast-unto-death for the least 13 days with a host of demands for reformation in the medical educational sector. RSS