Parliamentary Hearing Committee formed, finally

KATHMANDU: The Parliamentary Hearing Committee, a joint committee of the House of Representatives and National Assembly, was formally formed on Sunday with the passage of the Joint Meetings and Committees Working Procedures Regulations.

A joint meeting of the two houses approved the working procedures rules on Sunday.

The committee consists of four members each from the Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML, and one member each from the CPN (Maoist Center), Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), and Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP).

The members nominated in the committee are Ramesh Lekhak, Ishwari Neupane, Jiban Pariyar and Gyanendra Bahadur Karki of Nepali Congress (NC), and  Padam Giri, Mahesh Bartaula, Lilanath Shrestha, and Ishwari GM of CPN-UML. Similarly, Janardarn Sharma, Dol Prasad Aryal, Pashupati Shamsher Rana, and Prakash Adhikari represent the Maoist Center, RSP, RPP, and JSP, respectively.

Similarly, National Assembly members Ramesh Jung Rayamajhi of NC, Devendra Dahal of UML, and Jaga Prasad Sharma of Maoist Center have already been nominated to the committee

The formation of the Parliamentary Hearing Committee has paved the way for the appointment of the Chief Justice. Although the Judicial Council has recommended the senior-most Supreme Court Justice, Hari Krishna Karki, for the position, the appointment has not been finalized due to the delay in forming the committee.