Coercing Voluntary Contribution To ‘New Nepal Building Fund’
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 8, 2012: At the meeting of the Political Committee of the Council of Ministers presided over by Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai held at the Prime Minister’s official residence at Baluwatar on Saturday evening, April 07, 2012, the Council of Ministers has approved the regulations of the ‘New Nepal Building Fund’ set up with the objective of raising fund for building a new Nepal, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today reports.
Following the approved Regulations, the President, the Prime Minister, Ministers and Government employees are to contribute one-day remuneration to the ‘New Nepal Building Fund’, ‘The Rising Nepal’ quotes Biswadeep Pandey: personal secretary to the Prime Minister.
Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bijaya Kumar Gachchadar, Minister for Energy Post Bahadur Bogati, Minister for Industry Anil Jha, Minister for Physical Planning and Works, Hridayesh Tripathi and other members of the cabinet are present in the meeting.
At a meeting, the Cabinet's political committee approved the 'New Nepal Building Fund' regulations with the provision for collecting at least one-day salary from the employees of the government, semi-government, private and non-government organizations; the government will deduct one-day salary from the salaries of the employees of the government and semi-government offices in the upcoming month of Baisakh (mid-April to mid-May) and credit it to the fund; in addition, the government will request all private and non-governmental offices for the one-day salary of their staffs to the fund, ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ on April 07, 2012 reports.
"The government will make public its New Nepal Building programs at a grand program in which it will request all the people to contribute one-day salary once a year to the fund," ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ quotes the sources close to Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai as saying after the meeting held at the prime minister’s official residence at Baluwatar.
The government will use the fund for uplifting women, dalits, minorities and other backward groups, implementing sanitation and other development work and making people feel about "New Nepal", said a minister on the condition to anonymity according to the news.