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Major Happenings in Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On April 29, 2008, the Nepal-visiting World Bank team comprising 11 out of the 24 WB board directors met with the Prime Minister and CPN-Maoist Chairman Prachanda and pledged to provide Nepal with US$127 million to ensure the success of the ongoing peace process in Nepal. About US$ 50 million will be spent on keeping the Maoists’ combatants in the UN monitored cantonments; the remaining amount will be used for supporting health and rural drinking water projects. The aid amount is in addition to US $ 252 million the bank has already announced to provide. The team also met with other political leaders, ministers and civil society leaders.
On April 30, 2008, Minister for Information and Communication Krishna Bahadur Mahara said that the CPN-Maoist would lead the new government, as it garnered a largest number of seats in the soon-to-be-formed Constituent Assembly. He also said that if other political parties did not want to join a new government his party would go alone.
On April 30, 2008, Maoist Leader CP Gajurel disclosed that his party sent a message through a relative to the king for leaving the palace a week ago. However, the suspended king’s reaction to such a message has not been made public, yet.
On April 30, 2008, the Government of Nepal has decided to stop exporting food grains for avoiding the food shortage in the country, as India and Bangladesh have reduced the export of rice to Nepal after the rise in the prices of food grains particularly the rice in the international market.
On May 01, 2008, the Government of Nepal announced that it slashed the loyalties levied on the climbers for the off-season climbing the Himalayan Mountains, and exempted the climbers from paying loyalties for climbing all mountains in the western and far-western regions for the next five years.
