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High-profile Taskforce On Building Consensus
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 02, 2010: ‘The Rising Nepal’ of November 02, 2010 writes that the seven-member high-profile taskforce headed by Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda has built a consensus on the following four contentious issues:
1. Any provincial government needs to seek the consent of the central government on any treaty and deal on economic and industrial sectors it is going to sign.
2. The central government needs to seek the consent of the provincial government on those treaties that fall under the jurisdiction of the concerned province.
3. The executive head needs to appoint and dismiss the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) with the recommendation of the Council of Ministers.
4. The taskforce has left the decision on imparting military training to civilians above the age of 18 and mentioning the words such as people’s war, cantonment and combatants in the new constitution to the Constitutional Committee.
The taskforce has not made its decision on the mechanism for interpreting the constitution. The NC and the CPN-UML leaders have insisted on the Supreme Court to interpret the constitution but the UCPN-Maoist have been for a politically body to do so.
The taskforce has also not been able to decide the composition, jurisdiction and members of the tentatively named constitutional council. However, the taskforce has agreed on making it an independent body on Sunday, October 31, 2010 for appointing and firing Chief Justice and judges. The taskforce has also decided that the executive head: either Prime Minister or President leads the tentatively named constitutional council.
Members of the taskforce have agreed on making the Nepali in ‘devnagari’ script the official language of the Federal democratic Republic of Nepal, have also agreed on making Nepal as the multilingual nation and on forming a ‘permanent commission on language’ to select other languages for official purposes, and have left the decision on selecting official languages of provinces to the respective provincial parliament, myrepublica.com and nepalnews.com write.
