Kathmandu. Nepali Congress President Gagan Thapa has stated that Congress will not allow the current government and the ruling party RSP to take a casual approach to constitution amendment. Addres...
The Constitution of India, the world's largest document, has attracted thousands of commentaries and hundreds of standard books on its history, origin, basic features and even amendments some of wh...
Unless the inclusion commissions are empowered now, Nepal’s inclusion project remains mere window-dressing. The 2015 Constitution of Nepal was touted as a transformative socio-economic document de...
As Nepal continues to build the complex architecture of federalism, bridging the wide gap between constitutional promises and meaningful public service delivery has become one of the country's defi...
Introduction The Constitution of Nepal establishes Basic Health Services (BHS) as a fundamental, free right to be delivered through local primary public facilities. Yet, despite this constitutiona...
The task force formed by the government, led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah (Balen), to prepare a discussion paper on constitutional amendment is currently holding consultations with various stake...
Kathmandu. Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party leader Bhishma Raj Angdembe has stated that the constitution, which is about to complete a decade since its promulgation, needs to be reviewed and ame...
I was invited to facilitate a discussion on how the dialogic spaces embedded in Nepal’s federal Constitution can strengthen the country’s federal democratic system. Participants included key dialog...
Students from grades 9 to 12 pay thousands of rupees in government-imposed charges every year, even as the constitution and the Act Relating to Compulsory and Free Education guarantee free educatio...
Nepal has finally aligned its school structure with the Constitution, more than a decade after the new federal charter came into force. By amending the Education Regulations, the government has for...
Nepal's constitution envisions an independent, impartial, and capable judiciary. The ultimate goal of the judiciary is to provide justice to the victims, but victims cannot truly feel justice until...
The Nepali constitution deems the people the source of sovereignty. It demands that the government listen to the voice of the public on public issues. This is the reason people are given more const...
Lapsed executive orders leave constitutional appointments, university reforms and land management initiatives facing fresh challenges. The appointment process for vacant positions in constitutiona...
KATHMANDU, July 20: The government has amended the Education Regulations to formally restructure Nepal's school system into two levels, bringing it in line with the Constitution and ending the deca...
Kathmandu. The Supreme Court has ruled that giving MPs direct authority to spend budget in the name of the 'MP Development Fund' (Constituency Infrastructure Development Program) is against the spi...
Law ministry says one-time provision to retire employees at 55 or after 30 years of service conflicts with the Constitution and existing civil service law. The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliam...
The government's attempt to initiate constitutional amendment without securing broad political consensus risks deepening distrust rather than strengthening Nepal's democratic institutions. Constitu...
Nepal's Constitution-2072 institutionalized the federal democratic republic, setting a historic goal of bringing governance closer to citizens through the restructuring of state power. The core spi...
Weakening or abolishing them will not make the structural problems they exist to address disappear. A constitution is a socio-economic document written to correct historical injustices. Nepal's 20...
KATHMANDU, July 9: The Nepali Communist Party (NCP) has called for constitutional amendments to be pursued through broad national consensus, saying the process should strengthen the Constitution's ...
New Delhi. The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) has stated that the Indian government is ready to hold talks at the Constitution Club on Friday. Although they have agreed to hold talks, they have maint...
As the largest party in parliament formally tables its constitutional amendment agenda in its general convention, major political stakeholders remain at odds over governance models and electoral re...
KATHMANDU, July 9: CPN-UML has withdrawn from the government's task force formed to prepare a discussion paper on constitutional amendments, accusing the panel of pursuing an unclear agenda and rai...
Kathmandu. Article 35 of the Constitution of Nepal has guaranteed the fundamental right of every citizen to receive basic healthcare free of charge and not to be deprived of emergency health servic...
Diplomatic sources say border disputes featured prominently in discussions between Khanal and his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar. Indian foreign minister likely to visit Kathmandu in September. F...
PATAN, June 4: Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal has asserted that the Federal Parliament is committed to the effective implementation of rights of Dalit community managed in Article 40 of the Constitution.
Nearly a decade after the promulgation of Nepal's constitution, the full federalization of state organs remains incomplete. While the executive and legislative branches operate at the center, provi...
Panel formed to prepare a charter revision working paper has proposed sweeping changes to the governance system, electoral model, judiciary and federal structure. A government taskforce preparing ...
Kathmandu. The meeting of the CPN UML Constitution Review and Suggestion Task Force is scheduled to be held on Sunday. The meeting of the task force will be held at the party central office, Chyasa...
Proposed rule permits combined two-thirds parliamentary vote for amendments instead of requiring two-thirds in each House separately. A provision in draft regulations prepared by the House of Repr...
Kathmandu. Nepal's constitution, embracing the principle of separation of powers, has established the judiciary as an independent, impartial, and capable body. To uphold the rule of law, hold other...
Nepal's Constitution of 2072 is not merely a legal document, but a national political consensus forged through decades of political struggle, people's movements, armed conflict, Madhesh movements, ...
Kathmandu. Opposition parties appear apprehensive about the agenda proposed by the 'Constitution Amendment Debate Paper Preparation Task Force-2082' formed by the government to amend the constituti...
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Sher Bahadur Deuba
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