Current session of parliament prorogues

Kathmandu, April 14: The current session of the House of Representatives (HoR) has been postponed from Sunday.     

In the HoR meeting on Sunday Speaker Devraj Ghimire read out a letter related to this and received it from the President.     

The Speaker announced that the HoR current session automatically ends at 12 midnight on Sunday, April 14. In the meeting, he informed about the work carried out by the House of Representatives in the current session. The current session started on January 16.     

It is said the HoR conducted its parliamentary business, convening 23 times in 23 days and for a total of 81 hours and 55 minutes. Three bills, namely, the Monitoring and Evaluation Bill, the Food Purity and Quality Bill and the Anti-Money Laundering Bill, are in this session.     

After the Nepali Congress lawmakers stood from their respective seats at the outset of the meeting, the Speaker said that the meeting of the HoR would be moved ahead as per the decision and understanding reached in the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee.     

The meeting continued after the Speaker informed the House that items no 1 to 7 of the agenda of the meeting set for today have been removed.     

Speaker Ghimire presented in the HoR for its approval the notice relating to the lawmakers remaining absent in 10 or more meetings in the current session, in accordance with Rule 213 (1) of the House of Representatives Regulations. The meeting approved the proposal. (RSS)