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Achievements Of One Hundred Days Of Interim Election Council Of Ministers
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 24, 2013:spokesman for the Interim Election Council of Ministers (IECM) held a press conference at the office of the prime minister to brief the reporters on the performances of the IECM during the last one hundred days.
The spokesman has listed the achievements made by the IECM on the following order as published in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today:
1. Announcement of the date for holding elections made on June 18, 2013. The most significant achievement, the IECM has claimed to make. The four-party syndicate on March 13, 2013 has recommended the president to form a non-political IECM headed by the chief Justice of the supreme Court of Nepal to hold elections to a new CA. The president made it next day. Nepalis had anticipated that The IECM would announce the date for elections within a week, and would hold elections in May or June but the IECM took almost one hundred days to announce even the date for elections but the IECM claimed it as a major achievement.
2. Issued the election-related ordinances. Again the IECM had waited for the four-party mechanism to recommend the Constituent Assembly Member Election Bill to the president until the four-party mechanism could not make any decision on this bill. So, to claim it as another great achievement of the IECM makes people laugh.
3. Setting up the commission on delineating constituencies based on the population census of 2010. It is a regular business of the IECM. It is not a great achievement for any government including the IECM. In fact, the IECM should have done it immediately after the IECM was formed on March 14, 2013.
4. Taking the peace process to a final stage. Previous government had also claimed it. So, the IECM making a claim on it as its achievement is not but the impotent action of the IECM.
5. Filling out the vacant positions at the constitutional bodies. The funny thing has been that the four-party mechanism could not fill out the vacancies at the constitutional bodies because the political parties out of power always feared of the party in power would filled out the vacant positions with the people of their choice. They threatened to launch street protests if the government dared to fill out the vacant positions. So, the IECM could claim it as one of the major achievements.
6. Saving the country from falling on the black list of money launderers. Dr. Bhattarai’s government had done the same thing recommending the president to issue anti-money laundering Ordinance. The IECM did so too but it could not be a great achievement of the IECM as any clerk could copy the bill and the chairman of the IECM could simply submit it to the president for issuing an ordinance.
7. Increasing the revenue by 22%. It could be one of the achievements of the IECM. Increasing revenue is not so easy task in the country where tax collectors and the taxpayers share the leakage of taxes.
8. Allocating Rs 500 millions to reconstruct the Darchula. The flash floods occurred on the night of June 16, 2013 had cause great damages to the private houses, public buildings and the State buildings, too. However, most of the victims of the flash floods had to sleep under the parked buses for nights due to the government delaying the relief materials to be taken to the flood-hit areas. So, making decision on providing Rs 500 millions is not a great achievement when the government fails in actual work to be done for the relief of the victims of the flash floods.
9. Tightening the security and maintaining peace. How the IECM could claim ensuring the security to the people when the police went to thrash the people peacefully protesting at the Biratnagar sub-metropolitan city, and the police also thrashed the reporters and TV cameramen to cover the peaceful rally. Is it your one of the achievements during the one hundred days, Mr. Chairman?
10. Putting emphasis on controlling corruption. What a nice achievement of the IECM when nobody gets even a vehicle driving license without making a significant amount of the under-the-table payments. If Mr. Chairman disbelieves it please go to check the impossible standard set by the traffic police for testing the driving skills.
The IECM is noting but a rubber stamp of the four-party mechanism. The retired bureaucrats knew how to manipulate the decisions. None of the Nepalese bureaucrats reaching the highest positions in the Nepalese civil service could come out clean, as they need to soil their hands to reach those positions.
