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Nepal forms expert commission to finalize structures of 7 federal provinces at local level

Xinhua, March 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Nepalese government has formed an expert commission to finalize structures of seven federal provinces at the local level across the country on Monday night, a spokesman for the government said.

A meeting of the council of ministers presided by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli took a decision in this regard in line with the country's constitutional provisions, Information and Communication Minister Sherdhan Rai, who is also the spokesman of the government said.

The seven-member commission headed by a former bureaucrat Balananda Poudel is mandated to finalize details with regards to naming and mapping of the village executives, municipalities, protected areas and special autonomous areas within the seven provinces in line with the new constitution of the Himalayan country promulgated in September 20 last year.

The Nepal government should have formed such a commission within six months of promulgation of the constitution in line with the constitutional provisions.

The commission, which is more of a bureaucratic nature, can also recommend the government to change naming and mapping of the village executives, municipalities, protected areas and special autonomous areas.

Earlier in mid-February, the government had constituted a political committee under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa to resolve the prickly issue of delineation of provinces under the new constitution as part of government's attempts to achieve reconciliation with the Madhes-based parties.

The 11-member political body was mandated to come up with a detailed report to recommend solutions for resolving the dispute on provincial boundaries within three-month's period.

Madhesi communities ran a nearly six-month-long agitation over better representation in the Legislature-Parliament and the federal structure of the new constitution. Madhesh-based parties had officially announced withdrawal of their protests including the border blockade in February. Endit