Govt. decides to accept 60 million US dollar loan assistance

July 27, Kathmandu: The government has decided to accept 60 million US dollars in loan assistance through the International Development Association of the World Bank Group.

Sharing the decisions of the Council of Ministers meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers at Singha Durbar on Monday, government Spokesperson and Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, said that the meeting decided to accept the loan assistance in order to run different projects.

Similarly, the government decided to approve National Debt (Fifth Amendment) Regulations-2078 BS and Bond Priorities and Secondary Market (Third Amendment) Regulation-2078.

The government also decided to bear quarantine expenses of those Nepali citizens returning through ‘Deportation Centre’, released from jail and who have run out of money. Minister Karki further said that the government decided to approve the temporary positions for 35 gazetted employees at the central office and 21 at provincial offices of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and 23 for the Commission for Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons for the fiscal year 2078/79, which would be automatically scrapped with the termination of the Commission.