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KATHMANDU: The government has decided to make public the property details of ministers.
The cabinet meeting held on Thursday took the decision, according to Minister for Communication and Information Technology Rekha Sharma.
Sources at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers say that except for newly appointed Minister for Health and Population Pradip Yadav and Minister of State for Health and Population Hasina Khan, all the ministers have already submitted their property details.
The Corruption Prevention Act, 2002, and the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority Act, 1991, require public office holders to submit their property details to the designated agency within 60 days of assuming office and again within 60 days of the end of each fiscal year.
Ministers of the new UML-Maoist Center coalition were sworn in on March 6. As per the law, they were required to submit their property details within the first week of May.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who assumed office on December 26, 2022, has restructured his cabinet 16 times. But he has yet to submit his property details. Maoist Center ministers, who joined the government in the last week of December 2022, have also not submitted their property details.
Dahal was under pressure to make property details public after ministers representing the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) wrote a letter to the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers to make their property details public.
