Cabinet decisions: DIGs Singh and Bohara promoted

Kathmandu, Dec 22: The government has promoted Deputy Inspectors General (DIG) of Nepal Police- Durga Singh and Bharat Bahadur Bohara- to the post of Additional Inspectors General (AIG).     

Singh will be installed at Human Resources Development Department, while Bohara at Province Coordination Department of the Police Headquarters, Kathmandu.     

Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Prithvi Subba Gurung, shared this information. He further said Nepal Rastra Bank will be assigned as a regulatory body for the businesspersons floating loans to purchase public vehicles and the Social Security Fund, while the Transport Management Department for the businesspersons purchasing vehicles and the Securities Board of Nepal for the Investment Company.     

The meeting also decided to renew the Agreement between Nepal and India for the Regulation of Passenger Traffic between Two Countries till November 24 next year and so will be agreement protocol.     

The government has decided to permit the use of national forests in different parts of the country including Sankhuwasabha, Udayapur, Dolakha, Dailekh, Kalikot and Jumla districts for the purpose of constructing towers of transmission lines.     

The government also allows the amendment of a related regulation on the track used by the pedestrians inside the Shivapuri National Park so that the track hereafter would be maintained from Mulkharka to Chisapani via Jhule by adding 3.5 km in the existing route.     

The revised execution details of the OPMCM were endorsed by the meeting, according to Minister Subba.     

The government decided to table the Bill designed to establish and manage Nepal Aviation Service Authority-2081 in the federal parliament.     

Likewise, the Cabinet decided to give permission to handover Pokhariya Hospital, Parsa, to Madhes Province Hospital by upgrading it to 50-bed hospital, to table Bill designed to amend and integrate laws related to Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal-2081.     

Permission has been granted to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to submit the sixth annual report of Medical Education Commission before Education, Health and Information Technology Committee of the Federal Parliament. The report of the study committee on permission for the operation of securities market will be sent to the Finance Ministry as per Cabinet decision.     

Similarly, Kalaiya sub-metropolis of Bara, has been allowed to acquire four dhurs of land, Budhanilakanta municipality of Kathmandu to acquire more than four ropanis of land, Barpak Sulikot rural municipality of Gorkha to acquire more than four ropanis of land, Punarbas municipality of Kanchanpur to acquire 15 katthas of land and Ekdara rural municipality of Mahottari district to acquire more than 11 katta of land.(RSS)