PM to hand SRC report to CA chairman today
Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai is all set to hand over the report of the State Restructuring Commission (SRC) to Constituent Assembly Chairman Subas Nembang on Thursday.
The handover ceremony will take place after the CA session in the afternoon revises its working schedule. The hand-over, supposed to take place on Wednesday, was delayed because the calendar states that the report would be submitted on January 29.
The CA session scheduled for 3 pm will revise the calendar and set February 3 as the deadline for the hand-over of the SRC report to the CA chairman. The parliament plans to publicise the report once PM Bhattarai hands it over to Nembang.
The CA plans three-day deliberations on the disputed report which recommends ethnicity based 11 states on the basis of majority. The minority faction of the commission has suggested six states without priority rights for ethnic groups in the report submitted to the PM on Tuesday.
CA officials said the report is only a recommendation and the final call on the restructuring of the state rests on the CA’s decision. Political parties are divided on whether the SRC report should be referred to the Constitutional Committee or the CA Committee on the Restructuring of the State and Devolution of State Power. Maoists have stressed that the report should be submitted to the thematic committee, while the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML are in favor of forwarding it directly to the Constitutional Committee.
Each camp defends its model
The dissenting members of the State Restructuring Commission (SRC) clarified their respective positions on the Commission’s report. The commission had submitted two different reports to the government on Tuesday.
Speaking at an interaction at the Reporters Club, Ramesh Dhungel, a member of the minority camp, said their major differences with the majority group were on issues like working procedures of the commission, provision of putting to vote the review of the decisions taken, political priority rights and residual power.
Clarifying the reason for presenting a separate report, Dhungel said they wanted the introduction and interpretation part of their report to reach the public.
He also said their report suggested names for six provinces on the bases of geography, history and watershed. The names were Koshi-Sirijunga, Narayani-Kastamandap- Kantipur, Gandaki-Mukti Area, Janakpur-Bidyapati, Karnali-Khaptad and Lumbini-Dangisaran.
Countering Dhungel’s claim, majority camp member Surendra Mahato said all the members had agreed to the working procedure—to work consensually if not then proceed ahead with voting. He also said the bases of the states are identity and viability and that the former includes bases like ethnicity, presence of community cluster, linguistic, culture, historical and geographic continuity.
Posted on: 2012-02-02 07:19
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