President calls budget session from May 2
President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has called the budget session of the Legislature Parliament at 3 pm on May 2. The President’s office sent a letter to Speaker Subas Nembang notifying the decision on convening the new session of the parliament.
The president’s decision follows his meeting with Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal on Monday morning. Accompanied by Chief Secretary Madhav Prasad Ghimire, the prime minister submitted his recommendation to the president for calling the parliament session.
The session that will begin next week will see Dr Yadav presenting the annual policies and programmes of the government at the House. The pre-budget discussion will continue in the parliament before the tabulation of the budget for the coming fiscal year.
The budget session has been affected by political bickering which has thrown the budget implementation cycle off-course for the last three years. Last year, the then Madhav Kumar Nepal-led government was forced to bring the budget through an ordinance after the then opposition UCPN (Maoist) obstructed the plan to unveil a regular budget.
The current UML-Maoists coalition plans to bring next year’s budget before the May 28 deadline of the Constituent Assembly (CA).
The government has communicated its tentative budget calendar to officials of the Parliament Secretariat, said a source privy to the discussions.
The pre-budget discussion, as per the government’s plan, will begin after Finance Minister Bharat Mohan Adhikari brief the House on the principle aspecs of the budget on May 2. President Dr Yadav will present to the annual policies and programmes of the government at the House on May 10 after the completion of pre-budget discussion on May 6. Finance Minister Adhikari plans to present the budget at the House on May 23.
“The finance minister has informed us that he will be beginning discussion on budget with representatives of other political parties from tomorrow (Tuesday),” informed the official.
The coming session will have to amend the constitution to extend the tenure of the Constituent Assembly if the parties fail to promulgate the new constitution within the May 28 deadline. In recent days, senior party leaders including Prime Minister
Jhala Nath Khanal and Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal have indicated that they will try to unveil the first draft of the constitution before the expiry of the one-year extended tenure of the CA.
The government, earlier, had prorogued the winter session of the Parliament on Friday.
The session elected a new government in February and endorsed four of 16 bills tabled by the government.
Posted on: 2011-04-26 09:01
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